CASSIA — Researchers got the go ahead to start breeding hundreds of snakes on a property in Lake County.
A non-profit group will study and breed eastern indigo snakes on 25 acres in Eastern Lake County near State Road 44.
The snakes are a threatened nonvenomous species, native to the Southeast.
Researchers plan to breed the snakes in Lake County and keep about 200 snakes on the property.
They hope to eventually release a few hundred of the eastern indigo snakes a year across Florida where their populations have dwindled.