Brothers' pet project helps with snake conservation
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PAKISTAN PET SNAKES
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Karachi - 7 February, 2013
1. Hamza Hussain in python enclosure on roof of his house checking Albino Burmese Python
2. Close up of Albino Burmese Python
3. Hamza and his brother Hassan Hussain with pet pythons, Hamza holding an Albino Burmese Python and Hassan with an Indian Rock Python
4. Hassan Hussain with Indian Rock Python
5. Various of Hamza and Hussein with snakes
6. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Hamza Hassan, Python owner :
"There isn't any work being done for pythons in Pakistan like it is being done in India and Bangladesh. Hence, as we were already interested in having pythons as pets, we thought we might as well breed pythons also. We would fulfil our passion while breeding pythons alongside it. So that's good in a sense that Indian Rock Pythons also won't become extinct."
7. Hassan taking Albino Burmese Python out of enclosure
8. Close of lock on door
9. Hassan leaving enclosure, taking python outside
10. Hassan and his ten-year-old cousin Bilal playing with Albino Burmese Python outside
11. Bilal with python
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Hassan Hussain, Python owner :
"I ordered the Albino (Burmese Pythons) from abroad while I bought Indian Rock Pythons from over here as they are a local breed. I imported 16 python babies of which four were Ball Pythons. I don't have the Ball Pythons anymore but they are also a very good breed. It grows up to 5 or 6 feet and is also have very good colour and skin. Anyhow, half of the pythons I keep at home while the remaining I keep at another facility I have."
13. Hassan locking door of snake enclosure
14. Exterior of Hussain's house
8 February, 2013
15. Set up of WWF (World Wildlife Fund) regional director Rab Nawaz at desk
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Rab Nawaz, Regional director, WWF (World Wildlife Fund) :
" Yes, the Indian Rock Python is a species which is confined to South Asia; that is India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. Recently, in the last few years, it has become endangered because, due to its size, it's been caught a lot. It's been used for its skin as well and it also attacks livestock. So, in many parts of the subcontinent it's been hunted to near extinction. So, in Pakistan, you find them but they are very rare now."
7 February, 2013
17. Wide of Hassan checking python at facility where they breed and keep snakes and other birds and animals
18. Indian Rock Python inside incubator at facility
19. Hassan with facility owner Atif Imtiaz
20. Facility worker putting python in a plastic box for feeding
21. Python in box
22. Facility worker putting chicken into box for python to feed on
23. Python viewed through opaque box eating chicken
24. Various of parrots
25. Facility showing birds and reptiles, pan
8 February, 2013
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Rab Nawaz, Regional director, WWF (World Wildlife Fund) :
"Captive breeding is always a breeding tool which conservation managers use. It happens around the world for many species that people keep and breed these animals. Not usually in their homes but in breeding facilities and they can contribute by freeing them back in the wild. In terms of snakes, that can be possible."
10 February, 2013
27. Children petting Hussein's pythons on display at Karachi Zoological Garden
28. Various of children holding python
29. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Bisma Navaid, Visitor to Karachi Zoological Gardens :
30. People touching Indian Rock Python on table
LEADIN
Keeping snakes as pets has turned from a hobby into a conservation project for two brothers in Pakistan.
STORYLINE
Hamza Hussein loves snakes.
He is very fond of this Albino Burmese Python but loves all snakes.
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