‘I don’t want to imagine a world without giant snakes in it’

Neglected by most conservation groups, the Burmese python has a champion in Shariar Caesar Rahman.Here’s a fact that illuminates many of the realities of global conservation: we know more about Burmese pythons in Florida – where they are a destructive invader – than about their lives in their natural range in Southeast Asia, where their numbers are plummeting and their very long-term survival may be up in the air. Armed with a shoestring budget and a love for mega-snakes, Shari