The Ellen Trout Zoo is seeing success in an ongoing effort to breed and help save an endangered snake species.

Wildlife that benefit from their conservation efforts include Eastern Wild Turkeys, Bobwhite Quails, White-tailed Deer, and the Louisiana Pine Snake, considered one of North America’s rarest snakes.

Louisiana pinesnakes are one of roughly 30 protected endangered and threatened species that require longleaf pine forests, including red-cockaded woodpeckers and eastern indigo snakes. Pinesnakes need ...