Recently, snake rescue from different places of the country has raised everyone's mind.
Last Sunday, about five hundred snakes were recovered from an office room in Bogra. Earlier, authorities were forced to shut down the clinic's activities in the wake of hundreds of venomous snakes from a community health clinic floor in Bhola.
Besides, about two dozen poisonous cobbler snakes were recovered from a house in Ramnagar of Naogaon and about one and a half hundred in Comilla Alampur in Debiwar Upazila of Comilla. Every time the locals beat or snatched these snakes.
Although snakes are a part of nature and environment, Professor Mohammad Monirul Hasan Khan of Jahangirnagar University has expressed concern over arbitrary killing of this animal.
According to the World Health Organization, 54 million people died due to snake bites. 27 lakh people get bitten and people are poisoned. 81000-138000 people die biting snakes every year.
He said, the increase of snake attack in the rainy season is nothing new. Due to the submergence of the snake habit, they come to dry and high ground for laying eggs. Besides, venomous cocks and nuts are the main food rats because they nest around the people.
Because there is rats in the kitchen and ammunition in the village, there is more of the snake's judgment.
But biodiversity will be threatened every time due to snake attack, he said, and it would be difficult to naturally suppress the rat if the snake dies. Which will have adverse effects.
Besides, serpent poison is a very valuable and useful component in medical studies, he said adding that he would use his advantage by preserving this animal.
What is the common man's doing?
Replying to a question, Forest Conservator Mohammad Jahidul Kabir said, if any snake is found in the house, it will not have to report it to the forest department.
To make people aware about this, she said that she has taken initiatives to distribute leaflets in every upazila and campaign through Miking in the mosque.
He urged the media to play a responsible role in this regard. Jahidul Kabir said only 5 percent of the serpents of Bangladesh are poisonous and these venomous snakes are generally calm. Therefore, the fear of being unconscious will stop the irrational murder of the snake.
The forest department website has a hotline number, but due to manpower crisis it is almost impossible to reach its service in every place of the country, said Zahidul Kabir.
For this reason, he told to train at least one person in a village to catch and preserve snakes.
Those who rescue the snakes can leave them in their home. However, he said the workers will be appointed in the forest department quickly to resolve this crisis.
Chucker suggestions
Ramjan Ahmed, a snake charmer from Savar's Bedepalli, has advised everyone to be cautious in this rainy season to survive the snake bite. He also advised to keep the houses and courtyards clean and dry and not to move in the dark during the night.
He also told to supply snake farm in the risky areas of preserving snakes, as well as not reporting them to nearby snake charmers.
According to a study published in the 2010 California-based PLSS Neglected Tropical Disease magazine, one hundred people are victims of venomous snake bites annually in Bangladesh. However, there is almost no case of death in this case.
In Bangladesh, the treatment system of snake bites - government health services, private doctors, village doctors, herbal medicines and Ojha or traditional methods.
It has been mentioned in the article that there are more snakes in the areas of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Khulna, Rajshahi and Mymensingh. In the three months of May, June and July, the researchers noted in their report that bites of snakes in the morning and evening along with increased temperatures.
