Venomous snake rescued from Malugram with the help of rescuer and forest officials

Snake Rescuer and Conservation activist Trikaal Chakraborty rescued a venomous snake from a residence in Malugram area of Silchar. The snake is being identified as Red Naked Keelback (Rhabdophis subminiatus), which is an extremely venomous (haemotoxic) species of snake commonly found in the subtropical region across Assam, Bangladesh, and in Bhutan.

Trikaal Chakraborty along with the help of forest officials recovered that snake from the residence of a physician Dr. Rupanjali Gupta on December 4. Trikaal Chakraborty, a former student of the Department of Ecology, Assam University is a well-known conservation activist who rescues and rehabilitates snakes from the Barak Valley and handed them to the forest department.

Red Naked Keelback, locally known as Laal Dora Saap is widely found in this area, they generally dwell in bushes and jungles. “These snakes come from the other side of the Barak for the search of food and habitat, they don’t live in urban environment but now as the population is growing their natural habitat is getting shrunk, so they are now coming in urban areas,” said Trikaal Chakraborty.

People here prefer to kill the snake when it comes close to their residence out of fear, it is to be mentioned that this region is also the natural habitat of many rare and vulnerable species of reptiles and snakes. Some years back, local fishermen had killed a dolphin of a rare species and sold it on the local market. “I rescue the snakes with the help of forest officials and handed it over to them, they then released it into the forest area nearby,” said Chakraborty, who had rescued many snakes including python in Cachar in past.