{"id":16802,"date":"2011-09-09T21:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T01:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=23407"},"modified":"2011-09-09T21:42:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T01:42:54","slug":"what-killed-the-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2011\/09\/09\/what-killed-the-python\/","title":{"rendered":"What killed the Python?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';var addthis_options=\"Google+1\"<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: <em>Deben Sharma<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpus wpus_box wpus_box_small wpus_box_green wpus_right\"><em class=\"wpus_quote\"><\/em> No law  or Act on protection of wild life, in place, saved the reptile,  neither  any environmentally aware local initiative worked in difference  to the  cultural tradition of targeting the Python as priced catch to  celebrate  and rejoice<\/div>\n<p>A rare species of Python 12 ft long,  gracefully beautiful, came in the fire line of a hunter&#8217;s gun somewhere  33 kms from Ukhrul town in Manipur. I just wished Python did not appear  at all or disappeared suddenly. Alash! that was not to be! It is gone  for ever for our children never to see again. It was shocking but a  joyous event in that remote community to share the kill, so valued, to  the taste of the cultural tradition.<br \/> What missed the point? No law  or Act on protection of wild life, in place, saved the reptile, neither  any environmentally aware local initiative worked in difference to the  cultural tradition of targeting the Python as priced catch to celebrate  and rejoice.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, neither a python waited for a hunter or a hunter  chance upon a python every now and then but for the belief in the  medicinal value. And, perhaps for the new found commercial tag the rare  animal carried on its head and hide for the elites that got the whole of  the length: head and tale intact all the way to Ukhrul town for a  display in the market but not in a formalin jar.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to have simply  disappeared in <strong>digestion channels<\/strong> without a trace to discover as though  it never existed but to tell the story &#8211; the Python walked into the  traditional cooking pot for the belief in better health!<br \/> Do the  Pythons walk into every cooking pot?\u00a0 Nay, no wild animal are banned to  walk into the traditional pot in the neighboring Angamis Village,  Khonoma &#8211; the birth place of Legendary figure AZ Phizo. Few years ago,  the Village Council of Khonoma resolved to ban hunting within the  village territory and notified to all citizens of the village. The law  was enforced with vigilance and fines. Youth society of the village felt  the Village law was in contravention to their youthful hunting  adventures, the technologies, skills and practices handed over to them  from their elders \u2013 the traditional ways of life.<\/p>\n<p>When the village  council realized the displeasures of the youth, they immediately acted  upon. Series of meetings were held with the youth in the village to  reason out why there was a need to change the tradition and tame their  hunting instincts. Youth finally agreed and became part of village the  prohibitory law enforcement agency to give wild animals a chance to live  their lives free from fears and to prevent them walking into the  cooking pot in their ignorance. The Village Chief in his recent visit to  Imphal shared their new found joy in the village with number of wild  species returning to house in the reserve forests of the community in  their increasing population in the village territory.<\/p>\n<p>Children in the  village wake up the calls and musical nodes of different birds and  animals early in the morning, everyday to set out to schools. Still  earlier, Nagaland state Government was more proactive to put a  state-wide ban on hunting wild animals in close cooperation with Village  councils. How far the law has been followed is different question.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, prosperity comes to Khonoma village. The conscious\u00a0  decisions of the village elders to preserve their traditional cultural  heritage, which cradled historic events and personalities, have brought  dividend to the village by the inflow of tourists. But what has raised  the curiosities of people from outside, even more, is their stories of  befriending with the wild animals, managing the ecology rather than  becoming a problem to it, and living in the cozy comforts of their  natural environment. The days are much nearer, when every sound in the  forest will sleep in silence in our hills, not even the pitter-patter of  the rain drops to hear, then, we will go to Khonoma village, on  educational tours with our children, to chat with the monkeys, to sing  with the birds, and to play horse ridding on or wrestle with big fat  Python friends in lap of natural environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On our return journey we  will answer what killed the Python.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=72a5ac34-8686-44a6-b8ab-d6ce8a7785ca\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/09\/what-killed-the-python\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/09\/what-killed-the-python\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; By: Deben Sharma A rare species of Python 12 ft long, gracefully beautiful, came in the fire line of a hunter&#8217;s gun somewhere 33 kms from Ukhrul town in&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/09\/what-killed-the-python\/\">Read more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[437,489,862,32,330,34,863,108,864,123,865],"class_list":["post-16802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-articlesopinion","tag-deben-sharma","tag-dive-into-python","tag-imphal","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-manipur","tag-matplotlib","tag-politics","tag-python","tag-ukhrul","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}