(IN): Zubeen Garg, member of ' People for Animals', has mesmerized the nation

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India: Zubeen Garg, member of ' People for Animals', has mesmerized the

nation

 

2 August 2007

 

Youth icon of India popular singer/ composer Zubeen Garg who hails from

Assam and has mesmerized the nation with his heart rendering songs that have

been topping the Bollywood charts in recent times has decided to venture on

a new mission.

 

A member of ' People for Animals' since 1995 Zubeen yesterday composed a

song dedicated to wildlife conservation and to the animals of Kaziranga.

 

It is the recent loss of ten Rhinos since January 2007 and other wildlife

such as deer due to accidental deaths along the national Highway 37 that

passes through the National Park that moved Zubeen to come forward and bring

along a team of of renowned cultural artistes of this region and painters to

take a pledge to save the wildlife in distress.

 

After the roadshow Zubeen who also is a keen wildlife activist went to the

WTI and State Forest department`s Wildlife Rescue and Rehab Centre (CWRRC)

at Kaziranga where he observed the vets treating injured hog deer, a rescued

black cobra and other victims of road accident and floods, he also released

three hog deer into wild. The deer were rescued and treated at the centre

and were ready for release.

 

One can hope Zubeen`s wildlife campaign to go a long way in involving the

general public as he has a huge fan following in the Assamese society,

almost 100%.

 

Zubeen was also in Manas National park recently and is taking keen interest

in contributing to bring a change over there as well.

 

We get to hear of a lot of celebrities making appeals from their drawing

rooms but this young man as a true animal person goes to the ground,

understands the situation, keeps contacts with the authorities on a personal

basis and so this Man`s appeal certainly makes a lot of sense and we can

hope.

 

I have in the past covered his live performances, and I have seen people

going all crazy the moment he appears on stage or is spotted anywhere.

 

Yesterday too children and the youth from schools and colleges thronged in

large numbers in the upper assam town of Bokhaghat to listen him render the

wildlife song. They later joined him in the 30km long road show to Kaziranga

where another hundreds of people gathered to listen to the son of the soil

making a pledge.

 

Yesterday too Zubeen shared his views with me of his plans of getting

involved with many International Organisations as well so that along with

awareness and appeals he can contribute in generating some funds to uplift

the wildlife enforcement in the state.

 

It may be noted that Assamese people have in the past managed to nab an IAS

Official holding a senior post in the Nagaland Government shooting rhesus

macaques in the outskirts of Kaziranga and handed him along with his

associates to the forest authorities.

 

It was again the people of Assam who last month nabbed a Member of

Parliament and his guards shooting wild birds and got them arrested. Many

poachers too have been arrested or killed due to the massive local public

support in Assam.

 

With Zubeen coming forward it only lifts the spirits of a community which is

already fighting a battle hard to save its wildlife from being lost.

 

Azam Siddiqui

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