I believe we can if we protect all its remaining breeding sites, supplement small colonies with snakes from elsewhere, prevent adverse predation and learn to love the adder. Otherwise when historians come to write the epitaph of the adder in middle England it will read like a Shakespearian tragedy.
And in order to do that, we need to know where the species occurs and in what numbers. Recording by volunteers is a vital element in any adder conservation strategy. We need your records!
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