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The Chennai Snake Park, officially the Chennai Snake Park Trust, is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization constituted in 1972 by herpetologist Romulus Whitaker and is India's first reptile park. [1] Also known as the Guindy Snake Park, it is located next to the Children's Park in the Guindy National Park campus.
A painted stork in the park. Guindy Snake Park, formerly the location of Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, is next to the Guindy National Park. The Snake Park gained statutory recognition as a medium zoo from the Central Zoo Authority in 1995. The park is located on an 22 acres (8.9 ha) area of the National Park and includes a children's park and ...
The park is home to the few approved snake venom extraction centres in India, the Irula Snake Catchers' Industrial Cooperative Society, which also conducts venom extraction shows for the public at its snake farm. [61] [62] [63] The cooperative society was officially registered on 19 December 1978, and venom extraction was started on 16 December ...
Whitaker was the founding director of the Snake Park in Chennai. The park was conceived to rehabilitate the Irula tribe, who are known for their expertise in catching snakes. The tribals were left jobless after the ban of snake trading. Whitaker helped the Irula tribe to get involved in extracting snake venom used for the production of ...
Guindy National Park, in the south of the city, is the country's smallest national park, with an area of 2.76 km 2. This is also a rare national park that is located completely inside a large city. It has a scrub forest and the animals found here include chital and black buck, many species of snakes, birds, insects, and the like. [2]
While in her first year as a zoology student at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, [3] she volunteered at the Madras Snake Park probably sometime in 1978. [4] She trained under Romulus Whitaker and started working full-time at the Chennai Snake Park, then known as Madras Snake Park, after her graduation in 1981.
Flyover at Sardar Patel Road. Sardar Patel Road is an arterial road in Chennai, India, which runs from Mount Road eastwards through Guindy and Adyar for 3.2-kilometre (2.0 mi) up to the sea coast where it turns north and crosses the Adyar River to Raja Annamalaipuram.
The Parassinkkadavu Snake Park is located in Anthoor Municipality about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Kannur Corporation in the Kannur district of north Kerala, in south India. The Snake Park is in Parassinikkadavu , which is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from National Highway (NH) 17, en route from Kannur to Taliparamba .