Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I thought the main source for feral jackson's in HI was a defunct commercial breeding program. The business failed and the chams were allowed to "conveniently" escape.
The city manager is wrong. If you are not shipping your chams across state lines or internationally they do NOT need CITES permits! All the documentation most buyers of cbb veileds are going to have is a sales receipt. Keep it. It helps establish that the cham was bred within the USA. For a...
But, the number of "original escapees" was still very small. And, since the original escape, many of those animals might have died fairly early on, leaving an even smaller founder population that expanded. Inbreeding and genetic bottlenecking could still be a problem. If someone wants to...