In a rare conservation effort in Mumbai, 22 Indian Rock Python eggs were incubated and successfully hatched in a controlled environment through the joint efforts of the Maharashtra Forest Department and RAWW (Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare), with a team of wildlife rescue and rehabilitation experts from the nonprofit leading the initiative.

Last month, wildlife rescue experts recovered the 22 eggs along with a nine-foot female python from a drain along the Eastern Express Highway during pre-monsoon maintenence work. 

Ritik Jaiswal and Bhushan Salve from RAWW  undertook the rescue operation in coordination with the Forest Department as the python and the eggs could not be left at the drain owing to the nature of the pre-monsoon work as well as to avoid a potential human-wildlife conflict.