[7] Like meadow vipers in general, they visually resemble the common European adder (Vipera berus), but are shorter.

The mating season takes place from late March to early April.

Today they can be found living in smaller groups in the Hanság and in the Danube-Tisza Interfluve, specifically the Kiskunság.

[6] The depletion of Hungarian meadow viper populations is estimated to have begun about 300 years ago.

The Danube-Tisza Interfluve used to have regular water coverage and larger areas were covered by pastures.

By the turn of the twentieth century, the number of livestock had decreased in these areas, and a great ratio of pastures were plowed for growing crops instead.

[6] Up until the second half of the 20th century, these vipers were also hunted or illegally collected for selling them on the black market.

[11] In 2008, the European Commission started the CONVIPURSRAK [Conservation of Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii rakosiensis) in the Carpathian-basin] project as part of The LIFE Programme.

Many infrastructural improvements have been carried out, such were the renovation of the Hungarian Meadow Viper Conservation and Exhibition Centre and the establishment of a prey breeding center in the Budapest Zoo.