| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the impact of the Annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. According to roundup promoters, the roundup teach people how to avoid snakes, control an overabundant species of venomous reptile, and raise money to support charities. However, Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy director, and Florida State University, Tallahassee biology professor Bruce Means declares that rattlesnakes are top predators and have an important role in the balance of nature thus, it is not right to destroy them. He reveals that roundup increases number of snakebites and threatened 7 to 16 species of rattlesnakes native to the United States. He also added that only unscrupulous promoters earned from the roundups. |
