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Mongabay: Last week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced it was banning the importation and sale across state lines of four large, non-native snakes: the Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus), the yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus), and two subspecies of the African python (Python sebae). Although popular pets, snakes released and escaped into the wild have caused considerable environmental damage especially in the Florida Everglades.
"Unwitting individuals are buying these animals......
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U.S. implements snake ban to save native ecosystems
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 25th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation