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Boys in Cambodia Catch Snake With The Bamboo Hole Snake Trap

There must be a lot of snakes there? What type of snakes are those? Are they water moccasin?

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Water Snakes of Tonle Sap
In Tonle Sap Great Lake various species of water snakes occur. The Tonle Sap Water Snake (Enhydris longicauda) only occurs in Tonle Sap and nowhere else in the world. This makes it particularly vulnerable to extinction, particularly under the current rates of unsustainable harvesting. It is a gentle snake but possesses a mild poison to subdue its primary prey of small fish, frogs and crustaceans. Water Snakes play an important role in the lake’s ecosystem, not least as food source for nesting colonies of large water birds.
All species of water snakes of the Tonle Sap are unsustainably harvested (c. 7 million per year!) to be sold as feed to the growing number of crocodile farms around the lake. This is causing large scale population crashes and negatively affects the lake’s ecosystem. In times of fish scarcity due to over fishing, fishermen have turned to the trapping of water snakes which has become an important livelihood strategy for many poor families but has resulted in the flooding of local markets with snakes causing a rise in human consumption. Living in the flooded forests surrounding the lake, these snakes are also under threat from deforestation and the conversion of forests to agricultural lands.
The photo shows a Bocourt’s mud snake (Enhydris bocourti).

 

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