Spain's island declared war on albino python

Officials of a Spanish island called on experts around the world to help them stop the expansion of albino pythons from North America.

California python, an animal native to North America, is proliferating in Gran Canaria, the largest island in the Canary Islands of Spain. The forest protection force has killed several thousand pythons in the past few years. Initially they were only pet animals, but then they escaped into the wild environment and proliferated very quickly, Fox News reported.

The skin color of python princess California is quite diverse, but most individuals on Gran Canaria island have white skin with light yellow stripes due to albinism. So people call them white pythons . Their eyes are pink.

The pythons of the California princess are white with yellow stripes because they have albino disease.(Photo: thekingsnakes.co.uk)

'The pythons do not pose a threat to humans, but they eat endemic animals of the island - such as the giant Gran Canaria lizard. If the California lord continues to expand, the giant lizard will become an endangered species, ' said environmental expert Ramon Gallo, director of the island's number control project.

Ramon said that Canary is one of the world's largest biodiversity diversity islands.

'The Canary Islands are like a biological laboratory and albino pythons are threatening one of the most important species in it,' he said.

California princess python proliferate thanks to the warm climate on Gran Canaria. They have no natural enemies but their prey populations are abundant. Lizard is the kind of bait they like the most.

'From 2007 up to now, forest guards, people, professional dogs, cut birds and traps have killed about 2,000 pythons of California. But most of them are hiding in the ground so we can't see it , "Ramon said.