Reptiles Magazine
The 10 year captive breeding and release effort has thus far released 81 snakes.
May 26, 2021
The Nature Conservancy announced today that it has released 12 Eastern indigo snakes (
Drymarchon couperi) in northern Florida’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve (ABRP) in Bristol, in an effort to return the native reptile to the region that it has long since disappeared from. The conservancy, in conjunction with the the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens’ Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation (OCIC), the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Zoo Atlanta, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Welaka National Fish Hatchery, The Orianne Society, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Southern Company through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), and the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida, has been releasing these apex predators into the region for the last five years, as part of a 10 year program to reintro