The forest department has imposed a complete ban on tourists into the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve area from 15 June to 15 September for the third consecutive year, citing wildlife breeding concerns.
Dance floors are heating up with Nora Fatehi and Jason Derulo’s 'Snake', a cross-cultural track showcasing Nora’s vocals and signature belly dancing.
The researchers studied more than 4,600 pythons and found that reticulated and Burmese pythons, in particular, required less food to produce, say, a pound of meat compared to conventional farm products such as chicken, beef, pork, salmon etc. Pythons grow rapidly to reach the ‘slaughter weight’ within a year after hatching.
The officials were provided with bottles of Carbolic acid at the DCRC centres in East Burdwan as the district has recorded 173 deaths in a year due to snake bite.
Barjora Police Station, which has responsibility for an area spread over 239.6 square km in seven Gram Panchayat areas in Bankura district is located beside the Bankura-Durgapur highway and it is surrounded by heavy growth on its eastern and south-eastern sides.
Gita walked into the room while talking on the phone and without seeing the snakes, she sat down on the bed.
Society for Protecting Ophiofauna and Animal Rights is not only involved in conservation of faunal biodiversity but also is determined to safeguard the habitat of snakes.
People returning to their flood-battered homes in Kerala from relief camps were are being greeted by snakes and other reptiles and insects.
Students and staffers of a school in Maharashtra were gripped with panic when 60 highly poisonous Russell's viper snakes were found in the kitchen of the school.
Dr Anita Malhotra, a molecular ecologist and evolutionary geneticist from Bangor University in UK, is in HP for a survey to understand snake species
