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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nMilksnakes hibernate from October \u2013 April every year, but it\ndoesn\u2019t take long after they wake from their winter slumber to start thinking\nabout a future family. Between May \u2013 July every year, milksnake mamas scope out\npiles of leaves, rotting logs, or other safe places to nest. Then they\u2019ll lay between\n6-20 eggs and in a couple of months will welcome their new babies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nYou might guess that because they lay a lot of eggs at once,\neastern milksnakes should be slithering around all over the place. But because\nthey don\u2019t lay their eggs until they\u2019re at least 3 or 4 years old, and after\nthat will only lay eggs once every 2 years, their populations don\u2019t grow as\nquickly as you might think! This also means that their populations can really\nstruggle to come back after a disturbance. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so important that we\ndo what we can to protect them, and one of the best ways to do just that is to\nmake sure they have lots of safe habitats to call home. That\u2019s why we\u2019re\nworking with the Toronto Region Conservation Authority on the Meadoway Project!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Meadoway is a 16 kilometre long urban greenspace and\nmeadowland, stretching from the Don River Ravine in downtown Toronto to Rouge\nNational Urban Park. Connecting 4 ravines, 15 parks, and 34 neighbourhoods, it\nwill become one of Canada\u2019s largest linear urban parks \u2013 not to mention one of\nits richest meadow habitats, home to over 1,000 diverse species of plants and\nanimals! Meadow habitats are in decline across Ontario, and this can mean big\ntrouble for the animals (like the milksnake) that rely on them. By protecting\nthis important stretch of habitat, we\u2019ll be helping the eastern milksnake and\nhundreds of its animal BFFs find a safe home for years to come!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Proudly supported by:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In collaboration with:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n July is a big month for the eastern milksnake: not only is it when you\u2019ll find International Snake Day (although if it were up to us, we\u2019d make every day International Snake Day since we think they\u2019re ssssssuper cool all year long), it\u2019s also when female snakes everywhere are laying their eggs! Milksnakes hibernate from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":577879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,425],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-581627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"category-bbtw_updates"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581633,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581627\/revisions\/581633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/opg-green-black-logo-large-1024x293.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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