Gndevaz Village Teacher Calls on Not To Kill Snakes

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“I just ask all the residents not to kill any snake,” calls on Mkhitar Arshakyan, Chemistry and Biology Teacher at Gndevaz Village Secondary School, Vayots Dzor Region. “Snakes have a great significance for agriculture, and by killing even one snake we have hundreds and hundreds mice more. We had such years when we couldn’t harvest anything in the village hayfields, as the whole territory was flooded with mice. Mice destroy the root system and cause soil erosion,” Mkhitar Arshakyan told EcoLur and added, “As a part of nature, we have no right to eliminate another animal which poses some kind of threat. Just the opposite, they will help us to keep the biological balance.”

Photos of snakes by Mkhitar Arshakyan

July 29, 2011 at 10:57