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Photographs from the field.

Rescues 102

  • A rescuer crouches holding a grey langur by a rope lead in an open field, surrounded by about a dozen villagers and children watching.
    A langur released back into open country, with most of the village turned out to watch.
  • Two rescuers crouch over two large coiled pythons on bare ground while a group of children look on closely.
    Two pythons, and the lesson that tends to happen by itself once the crowd arrives.
  • A bull standing at the bottom of a deep brick-lined well, with ropes looped around its body ready to lift it out.
    A bull at the bottom of a brick well, roped and ready to lift.
  • Four men at night holding a large python stretched between them, standing in front of a police vehicle marked State Traffic Branch.
    A python, held between four people, after a night call-out attended with the traffic police.
  • A barn owl lying on a tiled floor with one wing spread out, its heart-shaped white face turned towards the camera.
    A barn owl, down and unable to fly.
  • A dark spectacled cobra with its hood raised, on pale sandy ground at the mouth of a burrow.
    A cobra, hood up, at the mouth of a burrow.
  • A man carefully carrying a live peacock in both arms, its long tail feathers hanging down.
    A peacock, carried out.
  • Two rescuers standing outdoors; one cradles a young langur whose head is visible above a white cloth sack wrapped around its body.
    A young langur, contained in a sack. Dark and quiet does more against shock than anything else to hand.

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The team 49

  • Five people at night in front of a rescue vehicle; the man in the centre wears a climbing harness and helmet and holds a puppy.
    Brought up in a harness, after dark.
  • A group of about a dozen rescuers and forest staff beside dense green vegetation; two men in front wear orange life jackets and one holds a snake hook.
    Life jackets and a snake hook. Two of the things a call-out can turn out to need.
  • About eleven people photographed at night on a road in torchlight, with a dog in a rescue harness held at the front of the group.
    The end of a night call-out, in torchlight.
  • About twenty volunteers in matching black-and-red team T-shirts lined up on a paved yard.
    The team, in its colours.
  • A dozen men at night, several of them covered in wet mud up to the chest, standing together and smiling.
    After a rescue that went through the mud.
  • A large crowd at night in a village street; a rescuer in a harness holds a dog among neighbours, children and volunteers.
    Half the street turned out for this one.
  • Seven men at night under trees; one in a rescue harness holds a dog in his arms.
    Harness still on, dog in arms.

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In the community 15

  • A hand holds out a small bowl of food to a group of grey langurs in dry scrub; one reaches towards it.
    Feeding in dry country, where food and water both run short.
  • Men and children behind a stack of clay water bowls, under a Rescue Foundation banner.
    Clay water bowls, given out for the summer.
  • Volunteers and police officers behind a table piled with tangled coloured kite string.
    Kite string collected off the streets, before it can cut another bird.
  • A Rescue Emergency Team stall by a lake, with life rings and banners, and volunteers in life jackets.
    A safety stall by the water.
  • Men standing around a pickup truck loaded with white sacks of supplies.
    Supplies loaded, ready to go out.
  • Men behind a table of colourful plastic bird feeders and baskets, under a government banner.
    Bird feeders, ready to hand out.
  • Six men behind a table stacked with clay water bowls, under a Gujarati banner.
    More water bowls, for more birds.
  • Volunteers, women and a girl in a grassy clearing with steel water pots, bags and a dog.
    Water pots and bags, carried out into the open.

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Schools and colleges 8

  • A hall full of schoolgirls in uniform seated in rows, with a presentation on a screen at the front.
    A full hall for an awareness session.
  • Schoolchildren and a teacher standing behind a huge heap of tangled coloured kite string in a school hall.
    Kite string gathered by children, before it could tangle a bird.
  • Rows of schoolchildren in uniform holding certificates in front of Bhagwati Vidhyalaya.
    Certificates, after a session at Bhagwati Vidhyalaya.
  • About forty young people and a police officer posing together in a hall with an arched roof.
    With college students, after a session.
  • An audience seated in a seminar room, watching a presentation on a large screen.
    A talk, with the slides up.
  • Women in colourful saris in front of a school gate, beside a Rescue Foundation Save the Bird display vehicle.
    Save the Bird, at a school gate.

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