This Anaconda is looking for its next prey.
World's biggest snake threatened by backpackers. Anacondas, which are native only to the Amazon basin, are in increasing danger not just from loss of habitat due to deforestation but also by invasion of gap year travellers and other hardy tourists. Biologists say the entire population of anacondas in one of the jewels of the Amazon basin will be wiped out within three years because of the deadly effect on the snakes of the insect repellant used by most backpackers to help protect against malaria. According to local eco-guides, sightings of these snakes are becoming increasingly hard and as many as 30 of these reptiles are being found dead every year.
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