Originally Posted by crotalusadamanteus

Personally, I never found them on the CITES list, but have heard they are CITES APP II, and have read the same somewhere else. I know they are protected by their local government, and are very hard (might as well say impossible) to come by. Even the AZA has a hard time coming by them. They have a special breeding program to try and get more of them into our zoos though.

But yeah, the typical story of habitat loss and too many years of disillusional killing of them. Sad too. Unless the status has changed, they are the most endangered species of rattlesnake, and critically endangered.


Rick