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As already mentioned in the text, snakes are now, as they were in the past, persecuted and classified as dangerous and are almost always killed indiscriminately. With a greater environmental awareness there has been a greater focus, in a regulatory sense, on the protection of ectothermy fauna such as reptiles and amphibians. One of these measures is the Berne Convention; written in 1979, it became executive in 1982 but was implemented in Italy by Law no. 503 of August 5, 1981. In addition to European laws, there are also International regulations such as C.I.T.E.S., drafted in 1973 and adopted in Italy only in 1980. The most protected snake in Italian fauna is the Vipera Ursinii. The chapter concludes with a discussion regarding the status of the conservation of Italian snakes by M. Capula.
[…] all of the areas where snakes are located, constitute the basic environments for the conservation of the species.
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Achille, G. (2015). Conservation and Protection. In: Snakes of Italy. SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14106-0_6
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