1st Annual Center for Snake Conservation Fall Snake Count will be held from September 17 23, 2011 during Snake Week.

Conservation through Education

Announcement from the Center for Snake Conservation--please distribute widely as anyone can participate.

Spend a day or a week in the field and help conserve snakes! There are ±295 species/subspecies of snakes in the United States but very little is known about their current conservation status and distributions in today's human impacted environment. In order to ensure that appropriate and adequate conservation efforts are applied to snakes, we need to understand more about them and where they occur.

Therefore, the 1st Annual Center for Snake Conservation Fall Snake Count will be held from September 17 - 23, 2011 during Snake Week.

Sign up here: Fall Snake Count

Our goal during the Snake Count is to document every species of snake that occurs in the United States in a single time period. A lofty goal but with your help it is a not so crazy. Plus, data we collect will confirm the existence of some rare species and provide baseline data to help us monitor selected populations of the more common species in the future. The data collected during the Snake Count will be used by the Center for Snake Conservation to map the current snake distributions of snakes in the United States. Specific locality information for snakes collected during the count will not be made available to the public, so rest assured that any rare species found will remain protected. The data collected will be used only in CSC research.

All participants in the Snake Count are eligible to enter the Snake Count Photo Contest. This is an opportunity to show off your snake finding abilities and photographic skill. Details and the terms of use can be found here: Snake Count Photo Contest

Thanks,

Cameron

The Center for Snake Conservation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of all snakes. Its mission is to promote the conservation of snakes and their natural ecosystems and implement positive change in human attitudes towards snakes. We do this through our education, conservation, and science programs. You can learn more about the CSC and its programs at our website (http://www.snakeconservation.org/).