Deforestation is Driving Snakes Out of the Jungle and into Rio Di Janeiro
March 15, 2008 · Print This Article
Snakes!
Deforestation!
Deforestation and Snakes!
It sucks to suffer from Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes)and live in Rio De Janeiro right now. The city is being invaded by snakes, driven from their forest home by logging. The AP has it:
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Snakes are increasingly invading the eastern Amazon’s largest city, driven from the rain forest by loggers and ranchers who are destroying the reptiles’ natural habitat, the government’s environmental protection agency said Tuesday.
The agency, known as Ibama, has been called out to capture 21 snakes this year in Belem, a sprawling metropolis of 1.5 million people at the mouth of the Amazon River, Ibama press officer Luciana Almeida said by telephone.
Link [International Herald Tribune]
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well i think that we sholdnt cut down all the trees because it’s the snakes home. how would you like it if somthing just startd cuting down all of our houses!!!!!!
I would freak out if a bunch of snakes showed up at my house with chainsaws.