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tim hamlett
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interesting and sad thread.
unfortunately though, being realistic i can't see many people getting particularly excited about a story that is essentially - some snakes have escaped from captivity and started breeding. they are harmless but the authorities want to catch them and place them back in captivity. lets hope will's right. i've always thought apathy was underrated! tim
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GemmaJF
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However many there are of us I doubt anyone will listen. The authorities do not listen when we warn of or complain about UK protected native species being wiped out. I doubt anyone will be listened to at all on this one. I guess most of us think is daft, completely unnecessary, crass, well I could go on all night and often do, but it won't make any difference at all. The only hope is the whole thing will be forgotten and fall off the agenda before anything is done.
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will
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Rob wrote: Of course Will, there is a third option... - do you mean capturing them and releasing them somewhere else, Rob? now there is a thought - some lovely remote valley in the south of England with woodland, scrub and plenty of farms nearby for egg laying. Only joking, of course, as this would be a reprehensible act In all seriousness, people from NE who were against the London Zoo snakes always gave the possibility of someone catching Zoo snakes and releasing them into the countryside at large as a major reason for their eradication. Personally, I think it far more likely that a population in the countryside would be derived from unwanted captive animals rather than someone deliberately coming to Regents Park and catching enough snakes from there to found a colony, but there you go.
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GemmaJF
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I could only think Will that such an introduction attempt would come from a very misguided captive breeder, just like in the past with certain lizard colonies. I much easier route than trying to catch individuals established in the wild and re-releasing them. So I can't follow the NE logic at all. Nothing new there then.
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will
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Exactly. Far easier to proceed via the captive animals route, as has been done for wall lizards as you say, and perhaps non-native subspecies of grass snake.
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