I have been giving lectures and conducting workshops on reptile management and awareness for some time. I've never written about them until now because, to be frank, I never found anything special to be shared. That changed with my last workshop, however, and I would love to share it.
My soccer coach, Mr. Savio Dsouza, has always been supportive of my passion for snakes, and he was the one to organize the reptile management workshop. It was conducted in a boarding school named Rishi Gurukulam Ashram. The best thing about this school is that it is situated in a valley with only greenery and mountains to be seen.
The lecture was conducted by me and my partners Akshay Parahlkar (Axy) and Anirudh Rathod, and we had carried four snakes to show them: The common krait, the common trinket snake, the checkered keelback water snake, and the most common of all, the rat snake.
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If I were to try to praise the students and teachers of the school, it would take ten more pages to write. The reason why I loved this school so much is because each and every person there loves snakes and respects them because they have been encountering them regularly and they are very well aware that these slitherins are harmless.
During the lecture the students were very interactive, and I was very amazed to see that even a first grade student was able to identify the snakes found in that area and there was not a single person in the crowd who was scared of snakes. Being a snake conservationist I would say these are the actual people who I respect a lot because after all the thing which makes me happy is that even people who are not into herpetology or the reptile world are trying their best to conserve and protect these magnificent creatures.
Photos: Chetan Waga
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