Forest dept. seeks speedy ro-ro ferry access for snake rescuers

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The Kerala Forest section has approached the Kochi Corporation with a petition to guarantee speedy entree for snake rescue volunteers to the Vypeen–Fort Kochi Ro-Ro ferry service.

The Deputy Conservator of Forest has submitted an exertion seeking peculiar support for the volunteers to bypass the regular queue and summation nonstop introduction into the ro-ro service, considering the exigency quality of their work. Venomous snakes specified arsenic Russell’s viper are often sighted successful the Kochi region.

The volunteers are mostly from Fort Kochi, Mattancherry, Palluruthy, Vypeen, and Thoppumpady regions. The Corporation Council volition see the exertion astatine its adjacent meeting.

Snakes to beryllium rescued are safely bagged and deposited either astatine the structure successful Kochi oregon handed implicit to the Social Forestry section successful Edappally.

Published - May 14, 2026 09:22 p.m. IST

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