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Raj Kumar Kanuri
FounderFounder of Friends of Snakes Society
Raj Kumar Kanuri is the founder of Friends of Snakes Society (1995)[1], an Indian non-profit working on animals from Hyderabad.
Friends of Snakes Society
Friends of Snakes Society rescues and rehabilitates snakes, runs a 24/7 helpline that handles over 300 calls a day, and works with the Telangana Forest Department and local communities on snake conservation, anti-poaching and public education to reduce human-snake conflict.
Friends of Snakes Society reports the following, on its own site:
- Conducts about 300 awareness programmes a year, reaching over 5 lakh (500,000) individuals directly
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Hyderabad
- Founded
- 1995
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “The Friends of Snakes Society (FOSS) is an NGO, founded by Late Sri Raj Kumar Kanuri in 1995 to conserve snakes, and in doing so, standing up for these limbless beings.” — Friends of Snakes Society. Source
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