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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.
  • Two rescuers in caps at a residential gate, together holding a large tabby cat.
    A cat, out and safe.
  • A tabby and white cat wedged between the horizontal bars of a window grille, its body caught and paws pressed against the metal.
    Caught between the bars of a window grille.
  • A cat's head protruding from a small hole in a rendered wall, with electrical conduit running above it.
    A hole in a wall, and a cat that could get its head through it but not back.
  • A pale street dog with its body pushed through the vertical bars of a metal railing, mouth open, apparently stuck.
    Through the railing, and then unable to go either way.
  • A donkey's head and neck protruding through a broken hole in a concrete slab, with dark water visible in the chamber below.
    A concrete slab gave way over a water chamber.
  • Looking down at a donkey's head coming up through a jagged hole in a concrete yard, water filling the space beneath.
    The same rescue, from directly above.
  • A close view of a donkey's head raised through a hole in a concrete surface, bent reinforcing bars around the opening.
    Bent reinforcing bars around the opening had to be cut before it could be lifted.
  • An Indian crested porcupine standing indoors on a tiled floor, its long black and white quills raised along its back.
    A porcupine, quills up, waiting to be moved.
  • A brown and cream raptor held in a gloved hand, its body wrapped in a cloth and its beak open.
    Wrapped to stop it injuring itself further while it is examined.
  • A man in camouflage clothing and sunglasses carrying a large long-billed water bird wrapped in a red patterned cloth.
    A long-billed water bird, wrapped for the journey.
  • A golden jackal curled up on a cloth inside a pink plastic pet carrier.
    A jackal, curled in a carrier.
  • A golden jackal lying on its side on concrete, with visible injuries to its hind legs.
    Found down, with injuries to both hind legs.
  • Three people in masks and gloves treating cattle lying on the ground in an open-sided shed, with an intravenous drip set up and medical supplies on the floor.
    Drips, masks and gloves, at a cattle shed.
  • Five people in gloves lifting a buffalo together by its legs inside a cattle shed.
    It takes five people to lift one buffalo.
  • A brown rat clinging to the bars of a rusty metal grille.
    Not every call is a large animal.
  • Looking down a deep well as a rescuer on ropes descends towards the bottom.
    The only way down is on a rope.
  • Seen from above, a rescuer at the bottom of a rubbish-filled well holding a dog.
    The bottom of the well, a dog in his arms.
  • A rescuer holding a golden jackal in his arms in front of a factory sign.
    A jackal, held steady.
  • A cobra on a concrete floor beside a snake hook and tongs.
    A cobra, and the tools for it.
  • A man dries a soaked puppy with a hair dryer while another holds it, outside a shop.
    Warming a soaked puppy.
  • Men lifting a young antelope out of a canal.
    Lifted out of the canal.
  • A nilgai with only its head and neck above the edge of a pit.
    A nilgai in a pit.
  • Three men wading through floodwater pushing black inner tubes.
    Wading in with inner tubes.
  • Two men wading in a lake, one carrying a net and the other an inner tube.
    Into the lake with a net.
  • Hands steadying a net slung across an inner tube, holding a rescued animal in shallow water.
    Floated to safety.
  • Men pulling on ropes around a large bull lying in a lane at night, watched by a crowd.
    A bull, roped and steadied before it can be moved.
  • A crowd of men using ropes to pull a buffalo out of a muddy pit.
    Many hands on the ropes.
  • A crowd watching an excavator dig a deep trench while men lean in to look.
    When the only way in is to dig.
  • An excavator working in black mud while two men stand in the pit below.
    Machines, when the mud is too deep.
  • Two men catching a black buffalo calf in a green field while a third watches.
    Catching a buffalo calf in the open.
  • Volunteers crouched on the ground restraining a wild boar with a catch pole and ropes.
    A wild boar, held still.
  • Men hauling together on ropes among trees.
    Everyone on the rope.
  • Men digging under a broken floor slab in a house.
    Through the floor.
  • Volunteers leaning over the rim of a round concrete well, lowering a rope.
    Looking down into the well.
  • Looking down a manhole at a rescuer in red at the bottom.
    Down the manhole.
  • Looking down a very deep well, ropes running to a rescuer far below.
    A long way down.
  • Two photographs: a cat on a ledge high up, and the volunteers and fire brigade staff who reached it.
    A cat out of reach, and the people who reached it.
  • Villagers and volunteers gathered around a cow lying on a rope cot.
    A cow, carried on a cot.
  • Men tending a cow lying on dry grass beside a wall, with more people standing on top of the wall.
    Help from both sides of the wall.
  • Two men treating a white cow tied to a tree beside a fence.
    Treatment where the animal lies.
  • Volunteers treating a cow under a shade net.
    Treatment under a shade net.
  • A volunteer in a team T-shirt tending a brown cow in a stable.
    A brown cow, checked over.
  • A cow held by a rope halter while a gloved hand treats an injury to its nose.
    Treatment in the field.
  • A calf lying on the ground with turmeric applied to its wounds.
    Turmeric on the wounds.
  • A man at night carrying a white goat in his arms.
    A goat, carried out.
  • A rescuer at night kneeling beside a dog held on a catch pole.
    A dog, caught and calm.
  • A black-and-tan mother dog standing over her puppies on rough ground.
    A mother and her litter.
  • A puppy inside a concrete pipe, looking out.
    A puppy in a pipe.
  • At night, a puppy at the bottom of a pit with a pole lowered towards it.
    A pole lowered to a puppy.
  • A dog at the bottom of a pit at night, lit by a torch.
    Torchlight on a dog in a pit.
  • A thin dog standing in scrubland.
    Found in the scrub.
  • A dog lying on straw beside a bicycle wheel, its leg in a wooden splint.
    A splinted leg.
  • A brown dog lying on straw against a brick wall.
    Resting after the rescue.
  • A golden jackal curled up in a pink plastic basket.
    Curled up in a basket.
  • A man holding a young monkey in front of an office doorway.
    Carried out of the office.
  • A grey langur with a cord around it, sitting in a cardboard box.
    A langur, waiting in a box.
  • A young monkey at the bottom of a well among rubbish, looking up.
    Waiting at the bottom of a well.
  • A young monkey on a heap of rubbish inside a brick pit.
    A monkey in a brick pit.
  • A cobra coiled inside a squat toilet.
    A cobra, in the bathroom.
  • In a farmyard, a dog on a log looks down at a cobra rearing below it.
    A standoff in the yard.
  • At night, hands working to free a snake whose head is stuck in a glass bottle.
    A head stuck in a bottle.
  • Hands carefully cutting a snake free from green garden netting.
    Cut free from the netting.
  • A young woman holding a snake in a village courtyard while two men watch.
    Calm, with a snake in hand.
  • A python coiled among dry leaves at the bottom of a brick well.
    A python in a brick well.
  • A monitor lizard hiding inside a car's wheel arch beside the suspension spring.
    A monitor lizard in the wheel arch.
  • A hand holding a monitor lizard down on sand.
    A monitor lizard, held for release.
  • A bar-headed goose sitting on a tiled floor beside a heap of green leaves.
    A bar-headed goose, recovering.
  • A green parakeet trapped in a gap beneath a broken floor tile, beside a black cable.
    A parakeet under the floor.
  • A fruit bat hanging upside down from a line, tangled in string.
    A fruit bat, tangled in string.
  • A cluster of small bats caught in a plastic sack.
    Bats, caught in a sack.
  • An animal tangled in the netting of a football goal at night.
    Tangled in a goal net.
  • A hedgehog cupped in two hands.
    A hedgehog.
  • A hare lying on a pink towel.
    A hare, resting.
  • A hand holding a tiny squirrel on a street at night.
    A baby squirrel.
  • A baby squirrel being fed through a syringe.
    Fed by syringe.
  • A gloved hand holding a small rat.
    Small animals count too.
  • A pig trapped in a pit, with a catch pole reaching down to it.
    A pig in a pit.
  • A cat caught between the spikes of an iron railing, with a hand reaching to free it.
    Caught on the railings.
  • A cat with its head stuck inside a steel pot, lying on a tiled floor.
    Head first into a steel pot.
  • A cat with its head stuck through a steel bowl, lying among dry grass.
    Stuck in a steel bowl.
  • A cat with its head stuck in a plastic crate, wrapped in a towel while a gloved hand frees it.
    Freed from a crate.
  • A cat with its head through a hole in a roughly plastered wall.
    Head through the wall.
  • A cat wedged in a narrow gap between a wall and a pipe.
    Wedged behind a pipe.
  • A hole broken into a pink stone wall, with a kitten visible inside.
    Opening up the wall.
  • At night, hands lifting a kitten out of a hole in a stone wall.
    And out it comes.
  • A wet kitten lying on a sheet of sacking.
    Soaked, and safe.
  • A kitten drinking milk from a steel bowl held out by a hand.
    Milk, first.
  • A cat lying on a marble floor with a splint on its front leg.
    A splinted leg, healing.
  • A cat with a red collar sitting beside a corrugated metal shutter.
    Back on its feet.
  • Looking down into a well where an animal is swimming in the water beside the rim.
    Swimming to stay afloat.
  • Looking down a round concrete well at a small animal among litter at the bottom.
    A small animal at the bottom of a well.
  • Looking down a well with litter at the bottom.
    Looking down.
  • A rope hanging down a narrow brick shaft, seen from inside.
    The view down the shaft.
  • A deep valve chamber with water pipes at the bottom, seen from above.
    Where the call led.