Why Snakes?

Snakes are critically important animals for our world. Snakes maintain balance in the food web and provide humans an ecological service by controlling pest populations. Yet, global snake populations are at risk from habitat destruction, disease, over-harvesting, invasive species, climate change and persecution by humans.

Currently the conservation needs of most snake species are underfunded, remain poorly understood by researchers and garner little attention from society. Moreover, as human populations rapidly grow and spread into areas that wildlife depend on, conflict with snakes is becoming increasingly common. Each year, over 2.7 million people around the world suffer a serious snakebite envenomation. In response to this snakebite crisis, the World Health Organization classified snakebite as a neglected tropical disease as few efforts exist to reduce snakebite in the Majority World.

There is a gap between the conservation needs of snake species and the human-snake conflict solutions that exist in rural, impoverished communities. For many, the solution to this snakebite crisis is to kill snakes. Left unaddressed, the indiscriminate killing of snakes will bring already threatened snake species ever closer to extinction while human lives continue to be lost from snakebite. To address these issues, Save The Snakes works to protect snake populations and reduce conflict between humans and snakes by implementing mitigation strategies which will lead to peaceful coexistence.

Learn more about snake conservation:
www.savethesnakes.org

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