Seven million: that’s the estimated annual toll in the world’s largest snake harvest, currently taking place on in Cambodia – the largest freshwater lake in south-east Asia.
“I don’t know of any other reptile that is exploited to this extent,” says Sharon Brooks, a graduate student at the in Norwich, UK, who described her studies of the hunt this week at the in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Tonlé Sap’s water snakes were largely undisturbed until about two decades ago, when declining fish catches and demand for meat for local crocodile farms left Tonlé Sap’s desperately poor…
