PAMPORE: Wildlife SOS team, led by Project head, veteran snake rescuer Aaliya Mir, rescued a Levantine Viper locally known as Gunas from the residential house at Wuyan village of Pampore in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on late Tuesday evening.
Panic gripped the family members and neighbours after 3-4-foot-long Levantine Viper Gunas snake found in the house of Amaan Ullah Khanday son of Mohammad Shafi, resident of Khanday Mohalla Wuyan.
The family immediately contacted Wildlife SOS Project Manager Aaliya Mir.
The team led by snake catcher Aaliya Mir immediately rushed to the location and rescued the Levantine Viper from the house, local residents told Kashmir Reader.
” I received a call from a family from Wuyan at 8.30 that a snake is inside their house,” head of Wildlife SOS project, Aaliya Mir told Kashmir Reader.
She added that she enquired from the family about the position and situation of the snake.
” I asked them to send a picture and when a picture of the venomous snake was received the family was asked to stay away from the snake,” she said, adding that she reached the family and caught the snake and rescued it.
The snake was salvaged from verendha underneath a table.Theviper released back into the natural habitat.
She informed that she rescued around 100 snakes both venomous and nonvenomous from different areas of Kashmir including Srinagar, Pulwama, Pampore, Ganderbal this year.Aliya Mir is a resident of Bag-i-Mehtab Srinagar and has been trained in snake capturing and rescue by Wildlife SOS.
She has also attended a one month training course in snake capturing and rescue at Goa.

BILAL HABIB