🐍i's Environment Correspondent Madeleine Cuff went on the hunt for the UK’s largest snake that is spreading in North Wales.
Aesculapian snakes were released into the wild in North Wales by accident. In the late 1960s the Welsh Mountain Zoo near Colwyn Bay was importing animals from Europe, both for the zoo and the pet trade.
At some point, one pregnant Aesculapian snake, or maybe multiple snakes, made a break for freedom.
Their descendants now make up the species' most northern population - but with a changing climate raising the possibility of losing many of our indigenous species they could hold the key to the UK's future biodiversity.
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