Obituaries (Asian only)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

 

Obituaries

 

Ram Kumar Adivasi, 40, a forest guard at the Palpur Kuno

Wildlife Sanctuary in western Madhya Pradesh, India, on September

30, 2009 responded to gunshots, with two other forest guards, all

unarmed, and found themselves surrounded by a Monghiya poaching

gang. " He warned them of dire consequence by uttering that he could

identify some of them, " reported Raja Chatterjee, secretary of The

Junglees. " That spelled doom on him. While his men were beaten

mercilessly and later fled, one of the gang members pulled the

trigger on his chest at point-blank range. " Adivasi posthumously

received the Junglees' Green Guard award, as did Palpur Kuno forest

guard Ram Dayal Srivas, who was murdered in his sleep by poachers in

2007.

 

Sunil Renade, 37, died on October 24, 2009 from a bite by

a cobra he had rescued earlier in the day. An inspector for the

Bombay SPCA since 1994, Renade lived on the premises with his wife

and daughters, ages 10 and 3. " He was an expert on reptiles,

especially snakes. He even had emergency vaccines and a pump to

remove poison at his home. Despite all precautions, he met his

end, " said Bombay SPCA chief executive Colonel J.C. Kanna, who

pledged that the society " would provide all necessary assistance to

his surviving family members. " Other Mumbai animal charities

promised to assist. Renade was especially known for rescuing nearly

100 snakes who were stranded in Mumbai by flash flooding on July 26,

2005, returning them to wild habitat outside the city.

 

 

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