It's an attempt by the actor to raise awareness about the threats that mining presents to biodiversity in Central and South America.
— DiCaprio’s Snail-eating Snake — is a docile reptile that dwells in eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia, where it forages for snails and slugs on palm fronds, trees and shrubs. But the old-growth forests that serve as its home are threatened.describing the species, along with four other newly identified types of snail-eating snake, in the journal ZooKeys. But mining poses another threat.
The researchers used genetic tools to create a treelike chart tracking the relationships between the snakes. The analysis led them to identify the new species and give them proposed names. Mining strips away habitat and fuel pollution that affects the slugs and snails that serve as the snakes’ main food source. Both legal and illegal mining, which ballooned during the pandemic, threaten the snakes, says biologist
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