Istria - Istrien

I will visit Crotia / Istrien for a short time. Is there a good place for field herping?
Is it easy to export some snakes froum Croatia to Germany? ( allowed )

rgds

Hello Fabian,

all reptiles are protected by law in Croatia, for several years also the venemous ones.
If you get caught catching / collecting protected animals or plants or carrying any with you, you can get a lot of trouble, especially if you are in a protected area. That may be very expensive, up to 7000€.
You also will hardly get any permit to export reptiles indigenous to Croatia.
Istria has a lot of extremely interesting places for herping, concerning amount of species mainly in the lower coastal part but July/August are not just the best time to do so there.

Regards,
Rainer

Thank you, Rainer.

Quote :: Istria has a lot of extremely interesting places for herping, concerning amount of species mainly in the lower coastal part but July/August are not just the best time to do so there.

I thought something like this already, but I will do only a little bit of fieldherping.
There are much more things to do... Smile

Quote :: If you get caught catching / collecting protected animals or plants or carrying any with you, you can get a lot of trouble, especially if you are in a protected area. That may be very expensive, up to 7000€.

Had the little hope, that some animals are not protected, because I don´t know local laws in Croatia, but I suppose they were similar to Europe...

best wishes Fabian

What Rainer said is apsolutely correct. Back in a days there were a lot of people from now EU camming over spring and summer and collecting reptiles and at that time there were no laws. Now days situation is rather different and all reptiles are protected and, just like Rainer said, you can get in a lot of troubles if you do that.
In istria especially people are very sensitive to that mainly because of Italians camming over and taking birds and testudo hermani for food.... so with strict laws and high fines they stoped that!

Hello Fabian,

doing fieldherping will probably not be a problem. But be careful, even tools that might be used for catching reptiles might bring you into troubles, especially in Istria, like Neven wrote. If you will be in a protected ares don´t touch any protected species, not even for a photo. Even if you get caught and one of your photos shows that you have done so, you may get problems.
Only venemous snakes have not been protected in Croatia until several years ago but now they are, like all other indigenous reptiles partly due to intensive work of my friend Neven.

Much luck and fun in Istria, it is a beautiful country, maybe you even find a Malpolon (might be interesting for you especially), they may be active on hot summerdays too but they are not very common in Istria.

Rainer

Great country, nice people and a beautiful landscape. I have spend only short time for fieldherping and I found only one Natrix tesselata, Lacerta vivipara,amelanistic crayfish and Lacerta viridis.No luck with Vipera ammodytes or Malpolon.
However, I have so many Butterflies and Dragonflies like never before.

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