几年来，每到蛇节前夕和节日期间，动物保护团体和英国动物保护协会的检查员们，就会手拎大袋子，到处搜捕耍蛇人藏匿的蛇，其中大部分是眼镜蛇。

For several years animal groups and SPCA inspectors, armed with bags and sacks, have conducted raids before and during the festival to rescue the snakes, many of them cobras.

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然而在达尔文证明了人类由动物进化而来后，19世纪的英国就成立了动物保护协会，素食主义和养宠物开始盛行，有关动物自杀的报告重新浮出水面。

In 19th century Britain, however, after Darwin demonstrated how humans evolved from animals, humane societies formed, vegetarianism and pets became popular, and reports of animal suicide resurfaced.

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无脊椎动物保护主义协会的主要负责人马特? 沙德洛说，英国野生物种正处在危机中。

Matt Shardlow, chief executive of Buglife, the Invertebrate Conservation Trust, said: 'British wildlife is in crisis.

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