"This is a tragedy": Swimming snakes are wiping out these beloved Balearic lizards
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"This is a tragedy": Swimming snakes are wiping out these beloved Balearic lizards
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Irrefutable proof of what Spanish researchers and wildlife experts had long suspected, and long feared, finally presented itself in the form of a grainy video that was shot on a minuscule island in the Balearics in April 2024. Ribboning its way through the turquoise waters that separate the east coast of Ibiza from the islet of S…
The snakes are considered strictly terrestrial animals, linked to the slopes, the stone walls and the undergrowth. Yet, some now cross entire sea arms to colonize lands that were believed to be beyond their reach. In Ibiza, the iron-to-cheval snake was filmed swimming towards small islets, the last refuges of lizards already decimated on the main island. A snake filmed in the middle of the crossing In April 2024, biologists followed the seabirds…
"The crown of the horseshoe, the snake that probably arrived with ornamental olives imported from mainland Spain, spread to a large part of Ibiza. This species of snake is not...
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