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They are revered, worshipped, feared and killed. Humans have a complicated relationship with snakes. In a talk at reStore recently, Showkath Jamal, founder of Bay for Life Surf School and snake rescuer, encouraged people to learn more about the city’s snakes to make coexistence more peaceful.

 “There are snakes in each locality of Chennai. Even in the busiest city junctions snakes move around freely at night. Some amount of awareness will enable the population to live without fear,” says Jamal, adding that there are 15 to 20 types of snakes in Chennai, of which only four are venomous. “But humans have this misconception that all snakes are venomous. That is why we are trying to create awareness about snakes, so that the harmless ones are let free and venomous ones are rescued and relocated,” he says.....Read more

 

Source web page:The Hindu

 

 

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