Snake conservation in Nepal is hampered by both a lack of research and poor awareness among the public and the government about the country’s snake species. Only about 20 of the 70-odd snake species ...

A farmer in Nepal reportedly turned the tables on a venomous snake who bit him, chasing down the deadly cobra and biting it to death. Mohamed Salmo Miya reportedly was farming his rice paddy field ...

DAMAK, Nepal, September 23 (UNHCR) - Every year, the monsoon season in Nepal unleashes heavy rains and opens the rice-planting season in the refugee-hosting terai plains of the south-east. From June ...

In July 2022, a lesser black krait (Bungarus lividus), a small, secretive and highly venomous snake, was discovered in Dhankuta, Nepal’s eastern hills. The snake, previously documented only in Nepal’s ...

In the past one and a half months, 10 highly venomous snakes — nine king cobras and a monocled cobra — have been rescued from various locations in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Both the snake species, ...

According to a research paper published in October 2020, two white-coloured kraits (of the genus Bungarus) discovered during rescue calls in Nepal's southeastern region of Province No. 2, are the ...

Delmae Ryan while visiting Nepal stepped on an Asian Pit Viper in Pokhara on September 28 but found Nepal’s hospitals did not stock the anti-venom and had to wait three days before being medically cle ...

The banded kukri snakes are named after their sharp, flattened, curved teeth which they use for slicing reptile eggs. They are found in Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan and Nepal.

After being bitten by a cobra this week, Nepalese farmer Mohamed Salmo Miya did what most people would probably never do. He bit it back. And killed it. "I could have killed it with a stick but bit it ...