A team of snake hunters at a Rangoon monastery in Myanmar has been busy putting about 30 snakes caught in recent months in large canvas bags. The volunteers, a unit unparalleled in the Southeast Asian country, then place the bags in a pickup truck and drive to a location outside the city to release the captured reptiles into their natural habitat.
The team includes 12 members and last year, the team rescued about 200 snakes around Rangoons. Myanmar's death rate from snakebite is among the highest in the world, largely due to a weak health system.