ETHICAL PRACTICES

Readers may be wondering:

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Where & how did you find these specimens? 

Were these specimens legally obtained?

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These are perfectly valid questions. We appreciate that they are addressed,

and we are comfortable answering.

 

All specimens in our personal Museum Collection were purchased or obtained from an ethically collected approach.

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Ethical Collection is defined as the legal collection of byproducts from animals that either expelled these items naturally during husbandry services (hair, quills, teeth, infertile eggs, etc.), the animal died naturally in captivity or the wild, or the animal was culled through wildlife management services: Some species are legally culled or hunted for population management services in the wild, and their anatomies are legally sold for various purposes including educational outreach. 

 

For specimens that represent a managed culling situation within our collection, we would like to express our intention for possessing such items and spotlighting them to the public: Just as natural history museums across the globe have practiced for more than a century, our intention is to inspire all generations to care passionately for wildlife.

 

These specimens represent themselves as Spirits ~ they are given a second life within our collection, narrating their story, acting as Ambassadors to inspire a desire to protect their kin alive in the world today, whether captive or wild. 

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We would also like to address that a vast majority of our specimens utilized for demonstrations and outreach are replicas and/or casts: this means that the original non-living specimen or even a fossil of an extinct animal was molded, and a resin copy of that specimen was created from that mold. This is the most ethical approach possible, and instrumented by museums across the globe for

research & educational outreach purposes.