Overview
- FOSS reports 98% of rescues occurred in the Hyderabad landscape, including areas around the Outer Ring Road.
- Spectacled cobras accounted for 7,525 rescues (49.3%), followed by 3,587 rat snakes and 897 Russell’s vipers.
- Venomous species made up 55.61% of cases, heightening public-safety concerns and necessitating trained response teams.
- Encounters cluster along the urban fringe with hotspots in Miyapur, Dammaiguda, Nagaram, Rampally, Manikonda, Bandlaguda Jagir, Vanasthalipuram, and Balapur.
- Activity stays low in January–March, rises in April–May, and peaks during the monsoon and post-monsoon months, informing calls to integrate rescue data into urban planning, waste and rodent control, and green-space design.