10/23/2025
Please consider advocating for the protection of the Southern Hog-nosed snake. Many species are in decline due to habitat loss and encroachment. The loss of any native species has a wider ecological effect. Deadline to submit is October 28th
October 2025 - The Southern Hog-nosed Snake is being proposed for federal Endangered Species Act listing and we have until October 28th (Tuesday) to submit public comments encouraging protecting this important species and its habitat.
The link to do so is here: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FWS-R4-ES-2025-0210-0001
You don't have to write much, just a few sentences about why this species is important and deserves protection.
We know this species has disappeared over large parts of its range over the past century - now found only in scattered localities across the Carolinas, southern Georgia, and northern/central Florida. Even their historic strongholds in the North Carolina Sandhills are diminishing.
This species shares habitat with many other important species in our NC Sandhills. Protecting their habitat is essential for their survival and recovery, as is the case for all wildlife. Like the Red-cockaded Woodpecker, habitat protection for Southern Hog-nosed Snakes can serve as an “umbrella” that protects an entire natural community of endangered plants and animals. The once-widespread southern pine woods ecological community is now relegated to a limited number of parks, preserves, military bases, and miscellaneous categories of lands where not all of this unique ecology has been destroyed.
