Myanmar’s ‘Snake Princess’ hopes to wrangle and dispel reptile fears one snake at a time | South China Morning Post

Shwe Lei leads a team of 12 that clears snakes– usually large Burmese Pythons– from homes around Yangon in Myanmar. The team is known as Shwe Metta, or ‘Big Love’ in Burmese. But the media call its members the ‘Snake Princes and Princesses’. Shwe Lei says that compassion is crucial as snakes are increasingly being s…

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