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Ilha da Queimada Grande - restricted island covered in snakes (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

So it's the opposite of Ireland.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Is this the place where people go to capture the snakes to sell them but most of them get bit by the venomous snakes and die there?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

there are so many snakes on one island – by some estimates one snake per square meter (10.8 square feet)

Snake Island indeed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation

Legend

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Holy shit, they were not kidding about the snakes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Supposedly covered in snakes, but I don't see any in the picture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

How the hell did they build a lighthouse there?