AFP At four in the morning outside a Yangon monastery, Shwe Lei and her team were wrestling 30 writhing pythons into old rice sacks and loading them into a van. It was just another day in the life of Myanmar's premier snake removal squad, prising pythons and cajoling cobras from dangerous entanglements with the human world before returning them to their natural habitat.
AFP At four in the morning outside a Yangon monastery, Shwe Lei and her team were wrestling 30 writhing pythons into old rice sacks and loading them into a van. It was just another day in the life of Myanmar's premier snake removal squad, prising pythons and cajoling cobras from dangerous entanglements with the human world before returning them to their natural habitat.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Shan and Chin states and Magwe, Sagaing, Mandalay and Bago regions. Two resistance fighters were also killed.
Yangon’s Shwe Metta snake-removal squad extract hundreds of pythons, cobras and other snakes from homes every year and care for them before releasing them into the wild.