On the morning of Tuesday, 28 July 2026, villagers at Char Phulbari in Buraburi union of Ulipur upazila, Kurigram, spotted a python about 10 feet long beside a bush on the edge of their settlement. A forest department team came on their call and rescued the snake, which had caused both excitement and fear in the area.
What happened at Char Phulbari
Locals said they alerted the forest department after seeing the snake in the morning. As word spread, hundreds of curious people from nearby villages gathered at the spot, and many filmed and photographed the python on their phones and posted the pictures on social media.
Residents said no python this large had been seen in the area before. One villager, Alamin Mia, told reporters he had never seen such a big python there and was frightened by it. Women and children in particular were alarmed.
Kurigram forest department official Sadikur Rahman said: "On receiving the news, a forest department team went to the spot and rescued the python, about 10 feet long. After the necessary health checks, the snake will be handed over to Rangpur Zoo."
Ulipur is an upazila of Kurigram district covering 458.48 square kilometres, home to 440,152 people at the 2022 census. Its 14 unions, Buraburi among them, lie on the floodplain of the Brahmaputra, Teesta and Dharla rivers, a landscape exposed to seasonal flooding and erosion.
Which python lives in Bangladesh
The large python found in Bangladesh is the Burmese python, Python bivittatus. It is not venomous and kills its prey by constriction. Its native range runs from eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh through Myanmar, Thailand and southern China to Indonesia. Wild adults typically reach about 5 metres (16 feet). The species needs a permanent source of water and lives in grasslands, marshes, river valleys and forests.
According to The Business Standard, Burmese pythons in Bangladesh are found mostly in the Sundarbans, grasslands and the hills of Chattogram and Sylhet. They are nocturnal, sluggish and solitary outside the March to June breeding season, feeding on rodents, poultry and other mammals and reptiles, and they generally do not harm people.
A protected species
The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the Burmese python as Vulnerable worldwide in 2012, and poaching is a major threat to it. In Bangladesh the snake is protected under the Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act, 2012, which makes harming or killing it a punishable offence.
Sadikur Rahman also stressed that the python is a protected wild animal in Bangladesh. Anyone who sees one near homes should not panic or harm it, he said, but should quickly inform the forest department or the authorities concerned.
The snake's destination, Rangpur Zoo, is the largest zoo in North Bengal. Established in 1989 and opened to the public on 14 June 1991, it covers 21.51 acres.
Photo: MD sajjad hossain photography / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sources: Jagonews24, Daily Naya Diganta, FNS, Khobor Sangjog, The Business Standard, Wikipedia
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