Noted naturalist Zafar Futehally passes away

August 18, 2013

India’s one of the best known naturalists and ornithologists Zafar Futehally (93) passed away.
Zafar Futehally:

Born in Andheri, Mumbai in 1920.
He led the conservation movement in India serving as a link between conservationists and corporates.
He also founded Newsletter for Birdwatchers a periodical that helped birdwatchers around India to communicate their observations. It was a vital publication and served to document observations at a time when there was no digital documentation and there were few scientific studies on wildlife in the country.
Mr. Futehally was associated for 60 years with the Bombay Natural History Society of which he was honorary secretary for 16 years till the 1970s.