Dumb question: Why aren’t they putting the cobra down? Those things are dangerous.
Same reason we are releasing wolves here.
Because the Indian government has passed laws that punish people for killing snakes. Snakes represent some of their gods for some hindus.
Guess what happens when poisonous and deadly snakes are not killed anymore?! Yes, their population increases fast, and snakebites increase as well.
Human life is less valuable than snakes.
Cobras are intelligent and don't bother people, unless harassed. They do a very good job of controlling crop destroying rats and other vermin.
Have you ever studied the bubonic plague?
Cats were killed on sight because people thought they were demon possessed. No cats= more rats and mice = more fleas = more plague = more death.
same with cobras.. you kill them and something much worse comes along.
I'll also add school bullies. They did a job controlling weirdos. You blamed them for societies ills and it turned out without them you got the likes of antifia violence and transsexuals wanting our kids to accept a sick demented fetish as normal and demanding we all play their make-believe dress up games.
A .410 shotgun would have been much quicker.