Montenegro's tragedy

[Francesco Tri]

This summer in Montenegro, near the river Bojana, where there are the remains of the magnificent forest that is running out to destroy ....

The edge of the road, after it had passed a flock of sheep with its shepherd, just look what I found ....

It was a beautiful female Ammodytes viper, conspicuously pregnant, killed by the pastor who had provided abundantly to decapitate him.

I pathetically harvested, and hoping to save some little viper, I cut the belly ...

But, unfortunately, there was nothing to do

[Mario Schweiger]

Yes, this happens very often. Not just on the Balkans!

I´m woundering, when you have been there this summer.
The ditch (small pond) is nearly dry!

Mario

[Edvard Mizsei]

It was a beautiful female Ammodytes viper, conspicuously pregnant, killed by the pastor who had provided abundantly to decapitate him.

I pathetically harvested, and hoping to save some little viper, I cut the belly ...

But, unfortunately, there was nothing to do

I had the same with a gravid female Vipera ursinii rakosiensis in this summer.

7th day
In the morning I went out to the field with Ferenc Bojtos, he is the CSEMETE office chief. I managed to cath a bigger female after a long walk. On the way back we found a dead viper. The head of the viper was cracked presumably by a European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus). On the carcass it could be seen that it was fresh and was full of viper embryos. We rushed back to the farm and I opened it, in the hope that the small snakes would survive. The small snakes weren't alive, maybe the heat of sunlight killed them because the mom snake was on the surface and it's body was very hot. Sad case, but from another point of view, it's a very good research stock.

Edvard

[Grégoire Meier]

Very interessant....

[Jürgen Gebhart]

FU**!!!! (My first thought)

[Francesco Tri]

I was very disappointed, then, from waste management throughout the area Ulcijni island of Ada Bojana: when they are not scattered in the woods and the forest or in the ponds, the same are burned by the roadside!

[Jürgen Gebhart]

It looks horrible!!!! but the trash are very good hiding places for Reptilies and Amphibians!!

[Aleksandar Simovic]

strange, they are Montenegro, ecological country...

[Boris Lauš]

I hate to see trash in nature, but it's the best place to find reptiles so far At least from my experience

And concerning the term "ecological" - a few days ago I was watching one documentary about Switzerland, and how it has the status of the most ecological country in Europe, but then reporter filmed tons of trash everywhere around I think people will never learn ...

[Francesco Tri]

But which country ecological! I ran away because they burn tons and tons of waste, day and night on the hill above to Ulcijni: when the wind changes you breathe pure dioxin!

I know that under the old washing machines and refrigerators there are the snakes, but there throwing asbestos, toxic sludge and hazardous waste, spent oils and other poisons in the forests, ponds, rivers and seas, now it's disgusting!!

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