Man Rescues Over 3,000 Snakes, Advocates for Conservation

Kathmandu. As a child, he was afraid of snakes, he would run away. There was a tendency in the village to kill snakes saying they bite. He himself saw many people kill snakes with spears. Yes, when Yam Rawat from Salyan went to Pokhara to study, he finally learned about the importance of snakes. Then his perception of snakes changed.

While studying undergraduate at the Institute of Forestry (IOF) in Pokhara, Yam became curious about snakes. Seniors in college used to go to houses to rescue snakes. They would go around explaining the importance and necessity of snakes for the environment to others. Yam, who had seen snakes being killed in Salyan, found it strange to see a campaign to save snakes in Pokhara.