For years, this police-approved snake expert has been running nocturnal so-called 'Snake Safaris' through the verdant, biodiverse terrains of Hong Kong.
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"The vast majority of snakes that show up in your house don't want to live there. It's just by circumstance, like a fish jumping in your boat," he says."If you're sensible, there's nothing to be afraid of. But sadly, many snakes are killed because of fear." Despite these reptilian riches, there are little more than 100 snake bites in Hong Kong each year -- the equivalent odds of about one in 50,000 -- and the last death was of a shopkeeper defanging a non-native snake for which there was no antivenom in 1988.
In Hong Kong, snakes are eaten in a soup, used in traditional Chinese medicine, or are otherwise simply viewed as a menace. The result is that across China nearly all of the larger snake species are classified as vulnerable, threatened or endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, which tracks the conservation status of the world's plant and animal species.
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