This might sound like a good alternative, but it’s not. Firstly, quite some countries working with such requirements still face serious problems with exotic pet possession. The number of unsuitable pets kept did not necessarily decrease. Second: holding requirements need to be effectively enforced and many countries lack sufficient funds and enforcement capacity for animal welfare and no political willingness to increase this. Civilians are not able to help monitoring without profound knowledge of species-specific requirements. On top of this, holding requirements will not prevent the risks of zoonotic diseases jumping from animal to keeper or the other way around. Nor the risks to global and local biodiversity when species are taken from the wild and/or when they are released or escape into local ecosystems. For many species, especially non-domesticated wild animals that are not used to live in the vicinity of humans, private keeping will inevitably affect their welfare.