Afraid of the rattlesnake

- Residents of Massachusetts are very worried about the plan of the American state to create an island full of rattlesnakes.

They are afraid to be bitten by poisonous animals which are brought together on a desert island in the so-called Quabbin Reservoir where a lot of walking around, fished and hunted.

According to rangers in the state, there is nothing wrong. 'The fear is based on a very wrong picture that always sketched snakes,' said Tom Frech, responsible for nature conservation in Massachusetts, a state forest in the northeast of the US

French his office is ringing off the hook since the leaked plans. Citizens around the 62 square kilometer nature reserve, about 90 kilometers west of Boston, are worried that the snakes on the island reproduce rapidly and thereby will create a dangerous and unstoppable plague.

There were still some 200 rattlesnakes live in Massachusetts, but that number is deteriorating. Mostly at the hands of men. The Roger Williams Zoo in Providence will be provided a number of young rattlesnakes, and later deported to the island.