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Wednesday, 30 May 2012 00:00

Tracking Eastern Indigo Snakes on Construction Sites May Save the Species

Written by  Amy Tardif

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service knows so little about Eastern Indigo snakes, it doesn’t even know how to protect them.  So it’s paying university researchers in Fort Myers to track several snakes before and during Everglades Restoration.  They aim to find out more about how the federally threatened species adjusts to the construction and maybe eventually they can develop a recovery plan.

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