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| AÌýSooth snake, Britain's rarest, on Town Common in Dorset |
A Raw Deal for Reptiles
Britain has six species of reptile and they're not doing well.Ìý We've got three snakes: the grass snake, the adder and the smooth snake; and three lizards: the common lizard, the sand lizard and the slow worm (although somewhere in the course of evolution, that one has lost its legs!).
For the most part, they are harmless creatures that simply want to get on with their lives.Ìý But changes to the British landscape and people's attitudes (which seem to range from antipathy to revulsion), mean that the numbers of snakes and lizards are declining and very few people seem to care.
In this program Brett Westwood meets some of those who do care, including a woman who knows all her local adders individually after having studied them for 30 years, and a man who's lucky enough to work on one of the remaining heaths in Dorset where it's possible to find all six British reptiles in the one place.
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