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ONGOLE: It’s a frequent assumption that in wet season, individuals in villages abutting forest or wild progress are in danger from snakes. However, what number of know that snakes face excessive threat in the course of the wet season? ask wildlife specialists.
Neelakantha Reddy, Forest Ranger of Yerragondapalem, Nallamala forest, mentioned the wet season poses extra risk to reptiles like snakes as their nests are flooded and after they seek for dry floor, they arrive throughout people and many of the events find yourself victims. Most significantly, the wet season occurs to be mating season for the reptiles they usually transfer out in quest of companions.
Throughout an consciousness programme held at Medapi ZP Excessive College in Tripurantakam mandal, the forest division displayed 21 totally different snake species and defined their traits and behavior and on the similar time the necessity to preserve them by avoiding a battle with them.
“All reptiles, notably snakes generally enterprise into human habitations in quest of meals and protected/ dry shelter as their burrows change into destroyed or stuffed with water/ mud or moist attributable to rains and inundation. Usually, individuals attempt to kill them in a panic mindset. However in actual fact, solely only a few species of snakes are hazard to the mankind and majority of them don’t do any hurt. If we permit them to easy passage, virtually all snakes will disappear inside no time. Snakes are nice pure surroundings protectors and they’re true mates of farmers,” Neelakantha Reddy defined.
Nallamala forest is a habitat for round 25 totally different snake species, each venomous and non-venomous. They embrace king cobras, cobras, vipers, pythons, Indian inexperienced vine snakes and rat snakes.