EnvironmentMost snakes in Bangladesh are not venomous and avoid people, a July 2026 column argued in urging people not to kill them. A snakebite needs a hospital, not a healer, and the wildlife law's penalty depends on which schedule an animal is listed in.
FisheriesOn 15 July 2026 a python about 8 feet long and weighing 11 kg was caught in fishermen's net in Kalmakanda, Netrokona; the next day the Forest Department rescued it and released it in the Kanthalbari forest near the Lengura border.
The Bangladesh Wildlife Service Foundation rescued a python from a house in Sreemangal where ducks and chickens had been disappearing.
LivestockIn July 2026 the owner of a snake venom farm in Patuakhali, Abdur Razzak Biswas, said it could collect venom worth about Tk 8 crore a month, but three months after registration with the Department of Livestock Services no drug company had offered to process it.
HealthTwo eight-year-old cousins drowned on 15 July 2026 while bathing in a pond beside their home in Pomkara village, Sidlai union, Brahmanpara upazila of Cumilla; a doctor at the upazila health complex declared them dead.
A 14-year-old girl in the Philippines died of a king cobra bite after using her body to shield her three younger siblings while they bathed in a river.
Rescuers recovered 12 eggs of the venomous monocled cobra from a khanqah in Patiya, Chattogram, though the snake itself could not be caught.
In Shetphal, a farming village in Maharashtra, venomous cobras share people's homes and are treated with reverence rather than fear.
A monocled cobra about five and a half feet long and weighing around five kilograms was rescued unharmed from the Jahangirnagar University area on 13 July.
As flooding from Typhoon Maysak swamped Hengzhou in China's Guangxi province, hundreds of snakes swam into homes and residents scrambled to catch them, while zoo animals escaped and more than 16,000 pigs were swept away.
EnvironmentA cobra and a rat snake rescued from a house in Amtali tea estate, Chunarughat, were released into Satchari National Park in Habiganj on the morning of 13 July 2026 in the presence of the Forest Department.
A python kept trapped in a net for three days by a young man hoping to sell it has been rescued in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram.
EnvironmentOn 12 July 2026 the Chattogram civil surgeon said 75 people had been bitten by snakes during the district's floods, and 20 to 25 had fallen ill with diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases.
