On 11th November 2014 (2071 Kartick 25) afternoon, while Dhanushadham Protected Forest Council -Working Committee was preparing for a meeting, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Mahto, a member from the same committee came with a snake. Though he didn’t touch the snake physically, he kept the snake in a plastic bottle with help of a stick and […]
This Chhath Festival (a favorite festival of Hindu religion), while entire Terai region of Nepal was preparing for celebration of this awesome festival, The MWT team received an urgent rescue call at early morning. People had seen a cobra snake while cleaning the Chhath Ghat where the festival was supposed to be celebrated at night.
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MWT rescued a baby/calf of Blue Bull/ Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) from Kisanpur village of Dhanushadham Municipality. As we have already posted in our earlier posts, around 35 numbers of blue bulls have returned back to Dhanushadham Protected Forest but around Twelve Nilghais are still staying outside forest. They had started avoiding DPF as they were
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Around 2,200 people collected sapling for free from DPF Nursery this year. The free plant distribution programme started on 26.07.2014 ended on 18.08.2014, continued for 22 days. Six staff from DoF, Two from DPF Council and Two from Mithila Wildlife Trust was busy in distribution of the sapling and Two Lakh and Fifteen Thousand sapling
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Recently, during free plant distribution by Department of Forest, Dhanusha at Dhanushadham Protected Forest, our chairman spotted a Common Tree Snake (Dendrelephis tristis) in the nursery. It is about 3.5 Ft. long. According to Indiansnakes.org and a book written by Herpetological Society of India, it is found only in Peninsular India. So, it’s quite exiting
Mithila Wildlife Trust rescued a Banded Krait (Bungarus fasciatus) from Bhoyl village, Dhanusha. The snake was roaming nearby the Temple where Shivcharcha (a Special worship for Lord Shiva) was going on, so, people were misguided to superstitious beliefs. They hit the snake with a stick, the snake couldn’t move due to pain and they kept
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MWT team rescued a Monocled/Monocellate Cobra in Mithileshwar Mauwahi, Dhanusha. The snake was hiding under steel tank using as Rice storage tank inside living room. The house owner saw a snake entering inside the house at late evening but suddenly it was disappearing. It took around 2 hours to search the snake inside the
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Two days awareness training programme of “Climate Change and REDD+” to the members of Dhanushadham Protected Forest Management Committee was organized by Range Forest Office, Dhanushadham and facilitated by Mithila Wildlife Trust. The programme was divided in Two days and Eight session which was delivered by Assistant Forest Secretary, Mr. Ram Asheshwar Mandal and District
Recently while returning with NCell team after survey of picnic spot area, we saw a Forsten’s Cat Snake (Boiga forsteni) near Ramdhuni Temple inside Dhanushadham Protected Forest. We rushed to the snake as it was exciting for us to see this species of snake in Dhanusha. It was noted that this species of the snake
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Yesterday evening, MWT rescued one Juvenile Cobra (Naja naja) from Mithileshwar-Sirsiya Chowk. The snake was rescued just besides the chowk, so, it helped a lot to aware the public present at the chowk. The chowk is situated in middle of Janakpur-Dhanusha road. Approx. 50 people were present during rescue process. MWT chairman explained about the
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