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Snake Catcher VavaSuresh

Snake Catcher VavaSuresh



             Suresh popularly known as VavaSuresh born 1974. He is an Indian wildlife conservationist and a snake expert. He is known for his missions for saving snakes straying into human inhabited areas in and around the district of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India. He is believed to have captured and rescued more than 30,000 straying snakes.
        He is widely known for his conservation activities like rescue and release of endangered species of snakes, preservation of collected eggs till hatching periods and creating awareness among people about snakes and their behavior. He releases his reptile collections into natural habitats at regular intervals of time.          His efforts to capture poisonous snakes from human populated areas and to educate the people about snakes and their behavior are widely acknowledged. Suresh was born into a poor family and resides in Thiruvananthapuram. Suresh attributes his snake handling skills to his instinctive passion for snakes from childhood at an age of twelve when he captured a baby cobra and kept it hidden in his house to study its behavior. Since then he began to focus on handling the snakes without injuring the snake or himself and to study their behavior more closely.
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