The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is seeking public reports of one snake species to understand how it is faring in the state. Rainbow snakes (Farancia erytrogramma) are hard to find, but researchers suspect they are declining due to the dropping population of American eels—one of the snakes’ prey species—habitat loss and snake fungal disease. “We need help from Floridians and visitors to better understand where rainbow snakes still occur in the state,” said Kevin Enge, a research scientist with FWC’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. “Every sighting report gives us valuable data about their current distribution and helps us assess the health of the species in Florida.”
Read more at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Article by The Wildlife Society
