Europe's first "snake farm" planned in Hungary
The endangered meadow viper (Vipera ursinii) is one of Hungary's two indigenous poisonous snakes.
Plans are afoot to establish Europe's first snake farm near the southwest Hungarian town of Kaposvar, local daily Somogyi Hirlap said on Friday.
The facility is planned to be set up by a German-owned company registered in Liechtenstein 20 kilometres from the town, away from residential areas.
The farm would keep different kinds of European and Asian venomous snakes, altogether about 1,000 reptiles, for poison extraction amidst tight security conditions.
The snakes would be milked to their poison on a regular basis to provide hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and even the beauty industry with anti-venom.
The farm would be complete with an anti-venom research facility.
Hungary has merely two indigenous, strictly protected snake species: the common adder and the Danubian meadow viper.
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