Hey Garterguy,
the European Garter Snake Association is open for Members from all over the world. So please feel free to join us
Please let me take your post for introducing the EGSA and especially the "The Garter Snake".
Dear Users,
I noticed that this forum is a meeting point of a great number of Thamnophis-enthusiasts from many different countries and so I'd like to take the chance and tell you about a project I'm working on:
I'm a member of the "European Garter Snake Association" (EGSA). Maybe some of you have already heard of this association before. If not, just take a look at our website (
EGSA.de - European Garter Snake Association) .
Our association has about 100 members - mostly from Germany but also from other European countries (SWI, NL, AUS, DK, ITA, UK).
Every three months the EGSA publishes an A5 format, 60 pages magazine, filled with pictures and articles on garter snakes only written by our members and guest-writers. This magazine is called "The Garter Snake" and I'm the editor of it.
Until recently the magazine was only in German language, but I've been trying to add English summaries to each article and also publish articles in English as well. My goal is to reach Thamnophis-friends from all over the world and make possible an exchange of ideas about our animals and enable our readers to find like-minded people from other countries.
We are always looking for new authors with new ideas that are interested in publishing one or several articles in our magazine from time to time.
These articles do not have to be highly scientific - any text on experiences you have made with your animals, field herping observations, etc. are of great interest for the readers. The articles do not have to be in a certain form: you can either just type them in an email or send them as a word document without any special formatting - I'll do that for you. It'd be nice if you sent some pictures that go along with the article (of the snakes you are talking about or your cages or the habitat for example).
And of course you'll get a copy of the magazine in which your article is published.
If you are interested in participating, please send me an email and I'll let you know further details. If there are any questions, feel free to ask in this thread.
To get an idea of what our magazine looks like or what kind of articles have been published, please send me an email and I'll then send you an electronic version of one of the recently published magazines.
I'm looking forward to your answers!
Best wishes,
Daniel