Norway will legalize reptiles as pets

Norway will legalize 19 reptile species as pets.

Norway reverses 40-year-old ban on reptiles as pets | Toronto Star

 

Interesting... I'm curious about why this ban was in place to begin with, since I imagine very few reptiles or amphibians are capable of establishing themselves as invasive species in Norway. Anyone have a species list?

 

A step in the right direction.

 

Species list here: Forskrift om forbud mot å innføre, omsette og holde eksotiske dyr
(Norwegian language only, afaik)

 

Thanks @ro6ca66. For those who want a quicker read, can't read Norwegian, and/or can't translate automatically on their device, here is a list by common English name:

Snakes
1. Green tree python
2. Amazon tree boa
3. Boa constrictor
4. Ball/royal python
5. Common kingsnake
6. Cornsnake
7. Milksnake
8. Rainbow boa
9. Carpet python
Lizards
1. Spiny-tailed monitor
2. Crested gecko
3. Leopard gecko
4. Ocellated lizard/jewelled lacerta
5. Uromastyx ocellata (common name?)
6. Bearded dragon
7. Madagascar day gecko
Chelonians
1. Greek tortoise
2. Chinese pond turtle
3. Red-footed tortoise

 

The Norwegian reptile ban will be lifted August 15, 2017. Only 19 reptile species will be legalized. Keeping amphibians will still be banned. All the reptile species on the list are quite easy to take care of. One could wish that they would legalize more species, including amphibians. But 19 species is at least better than nothing. Maybe some more species will be added to that list over time. Time will tell. I wish they could legalize species like chinese water dragon, blue-tongued skink, white's tree frog and axolotl.

People will only be allowed to own reptiles that are born in captivity, and have captive born parents. People and business who own reptiles on the list will have to own written documentations of their presence. It is uncertain whether people who currently own illegal reptiles in Norway will be given amnesty or not.

Here is another article about the subject:

Norwegians can now have reptiles as pets

 

I would think most if not all of the reptiles listed would be captive bread anyway. So agood start for hobby keepers who often have better set ups than some zoo's and more time to do it.

 

The common name of Uromastyx ocellata is the Ocellated Spinytail.

 

Well that's not a common name I have not heard of before. But then I am no great expert on these things.

 

it is the common name used by the Reptile Database.

 

Which is probably the only place that uses it then, hence why I hadn't heard of it then.

 

Where I come from they are always referred to as Uromastyx as if it was their common name

 

Nope, somewhere in Lancashire

 

What is this statement supposed to mean?

 

Ocelllated Spinytail is the name commonly used in the pet trade.

 

Not over here it isn't its Uromastyx!!

 

Well technically over here we are not allowed to keep any exotic reptiles. Perhaps they are called Uromastyx in the pet trade, I just typed in Uromastyx Ocellata and a caresheet for the species came up claiming their common name was Ocellated Spinytail.

 

I've seen them referred to as 'ocellated dabb lizard' once, but typically yeah, it's uromastyx or 'uro'