I say absolutely give it a shot! Regarding the importing from abroad idea, I won't by any means claim to know everything about it but I'd expect it to be a rather long and difficult process to do it legally (even more difficult illegally tbh). You'd have to deal with the federal government and CITES regulations...with the difficulty and long drawn out process involves in just doing simple legal things within your state requiring government permission, I'd probably make that a long term goal and right now focus on your strengths and capitalize on them. There's no hurry if it's a passion. I'd suspect that one of the most important things you can do is make as many contacts as possible and if you have the right contacts plenty of opportunities will start to pop up seemingly magically over time. The more connections you have in any business, the better.
