08 March – 14 March ’09 On Saturday, in an event organized by Maharashtra State Government Forest department at Thane, the Snake Friends rescue workers got legal status by being issued with I-cards from the Dept.
The Dept. issued Identity Cards to 20 people. Even Bhandup based Snake Friend Sunish Subramanian & Bhai Tarkar was among them.
While talking to Sunish Subramanian founder of Plant & Animals Welfare society – Mumbai (PAWS-Mumbai) he said, “I have been involved in rescue work since 12 years and I am doing this rescue work with my best of intentions. However, catching of snakes is in violation of Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, but we are doing this work of saving snakes with the help of Forest department and now we finally have got legal status.”
“We have set up a committee which has carefully scrutinized the work of each snake friend and only then we have issued I-cards to these groups, they have also helped us in rescuing work in past and because of them we had saved many snakes and our time too,” said Anil Toradmal, Rage Forest Officer, Mumbai .
If you see any snakes in residential area please don’t kill them call PAWS-Mumbai-Mumbai helpline 9833480388
