The Exotic Wildlife Association has a mission to encourage and expand the conservation of indigenous and non-indigenous hoofstock animals, while encouraging their members to develop and strengthen the markets for their animals.

Exotic Wildlife Association is committed to accomplishing the following goals:

1) Protect the rights of private land owners, including, but not limited to, the right to manage and control their own land and the indigenous and non-indigenous hoofstock animals living on it

2) Defend the owners of indigenous and non-indigenous hoofstock animals against the misrepresentations and false allegations of animal rights activists

3) Articulate the need for "sustainable utilization" of wildlife, as a viable tool to maintain proper "carrying capacity" on private property

4) Educate policy-makers, the media, and the public through research and advocacy

5) Foster development of the alternative livestock industry through agricultural diversification into production and marketing

6) Promote "conservation through commerce"

7) Provide technical support and useful information to the members of EWA, so as to benefit them, their animals, and their industry

Brief history of EWA:
In 1967, a group of concerned ranchers with a vision for the future of the exotic wildlife industry met to form an organization that later became the EWA.  The association's purpose since that first meeting has been to preserve the rights of exotic wildlife owners, and to promote the development and expansion of the exotic wildlife industry. 

Today, the EWA has grown into what is now the oldest and one of the most successful associations of it's type in North America. The EWA is your voice in preserving the integrity and ethics of our industry.

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