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The Cuban boa, aka Cuban tree boa or Majá de Santa María, is 1 of the largest snakes in North America. They are a member of the family Boidae. These snakes face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, farming, ranching, mining […]

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The emerald tree monitor, aka green tree monitor, emerald monitor, or wbl km, hails from Papua New Guinea and extreme northern Australia. These beautiful green lizards face the threat of overcollection for the pet trade. As strict arboreal (spend their lives in trees) reptiles, these monitors are entirely dependent on […]

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The brown rainbow boa calls the Central American and South American jungles and rainforests their home. They are a nonvenomous constrictor that faces the ongoing threat of widespread deforestation and agricultural expansion that clears out the humid forests and coastal clearings these snakes rely on to live. These snakes are […]

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The Arrau turtle, aka South American river turtle, giant South American turtle, giant Amazon River turtle, Arrau sideneck turtle, Amazon River turtle, or the Arrau, hails from South America. They face the threats of poaching and trafficking for the illegal pet trade. Mega, hydroelectric dams flood critical nesting beaches, alter […]

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The sand goanna, aka Gould’s monitor, sand monitor, and racehorse goanna, is a large monitor lizard found throughout most of Australia. These lizards face the threat of predation by the invasive species known as the red fox. They also fall victim to consuming the deadly cane toad. Habitat loss and […]

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The Children’s python, aka banded rock python, small-blotched python, and eastern small-blotched python, hails from northern Australia. These snakes face the threat of death from ingesting the deadly poisonous cane toad. The threat of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of clearing of native woodlands and rocky outcrops for […]

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The woma python, aka Ramsay’s python, the sand python, or the woma, is like all pythons, a constrictor, and therefore not venomous. They hail from a majority of Australia. They face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of the farming practice of cropping (cutting, trimming, or […]

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The black-headed python is a species of constrictor that hails from northern half of Australia. Being constrictors, they rely on squeezing their prey to death, rather than envenoming their prey. They face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of farming, ranching, residential, and commercial developments. Because […]

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The desert monitor can be found in northern Africa, as well as central and southern Asia. They are part of the order Squamata, like all monitor lizards. These lizards face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, farming, and ranching. Their daily […]

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The Meller’s chameleon, aka Meller’s giant one-horned chameleon or giant one-horned chameleon, hails from east Africa in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. They face the threat of capture for the international pet trade. Between 1977 – 2011 approximately 50,363 live individuals were exported from across the native range of this species […]

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