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PYTHON REPORTED FROM MANGALPUR VILLAGE, DHANUSHA

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Yesterday after noon a Python was sighted by some farmers  from  Mangalpur village which falls  in buffer zone of Dhanusha Protected Forest (DPF). As MWT got a rescue call, we rashed to the spot in no time as our full team was near to that area for releasing rescued snake in DPF. Unfortunately, our Herpetologist, Mr.Mavish, Biologist Mr.Suvin (Trainee) and their team was not able to sight the snake said by the villagers. After two hour search to get that snake, (as by the different  literature, rearly seen in this area) our herpetologist found number of holes and caves near to the pond into which the said snake might have escaped. According to villagers, snake was around ten feet long, yellow and brown patches with elongated triangular head. After showing the photographs and  identification features, Mavish confirmed the snake as Python sp. Our team was very glad to say that we are getting into the peoples as, the number of rescue calls are getting increased day by day. Dhanusha district wildlife rescue, please feel free to call/ miss call @ +977-9812 007 071 and 9812 185 489  

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Started Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Project.

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Initial survey report of ten days shows an positive result for the new project initiated by  MWT Herpetologist Mr. Mavish and his research team. Almost all the  houses of Dhanusha village of Nepal  shows one or two snake bites in last two year. The common snakes, peoples encountered was Cobra and Krait (Poisonous), Rat snake, Wolf snake, Water snake, Striped Keelback, Vine snake, Pythons, etc. Villagers kills all these speechless creatures without any humanity, as thinking of poisonous ones. They are unaware of importance of these creature in our environment, even though they are the friends of farmer.  In addition our herpetologist added that, every one of these area want us to rescue those creatures on time,  delay of a minute or two because of traffic   pretend villagers to wipe off these speechless ones from the earth. If this attitude of human being continues, it is sure that number of reptile species is giong to vanish from earth in no time. Here comes the importance of rescue and rehabilitation of wildlife team.

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