{"id":51270,"date":"2022-05-18T21:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/meet-kashmirs-lone-female-wildlife-expert-who-rescues-snakes-reptiles-wild-animals-in-a-play-way-method\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T21:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:13:43","slug":"meet-kashmirs-lone-female-wildlife-expert-who-rescues-snakes-reptiles-wild-animals-in-a-play-way-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51270","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kashmir\u2019s lone female wildlife expert who rescues snakes, reptiles, wild animals in a \u2018Play-Way Method\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Says have rescued snakes since March this year; My effort always remains no to harm animals while rescuing; Early summer pushing snakes out of hides; Urges locals not to take risk, give respect to animals; always call experts for rescue<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Srinagar, May 18:<\/strong> Aliya Mir, 41, the lone wildlife expert from Srinagar, is earning fame and taking social media by a storm for her unique art of rescuing the dangerous wild animals like snakes, reptiles, bears, leopards in a most passionate and play-way manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mir believes that every wild animal deserves respect and no one should harm them. Her video while rescuing a 6-feet reptile stuck in a scooty outside civil secretariat evoked tremendous response on the social media with netizens praising her work. As per Mir, she has been in the field of wildlife since past 15 years and has an expertise of dealing with all kinds of wild animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since March this year, Mir has rescued 50 snakes\/reptiles from various parts of Kashmir including Srinagar. She says as Kashmir too is witnessing early summer, snakes, reptiles and other wild animals are coming out of their hides early. At present Mir is Project Manager at Wildlife SoS that works in collaboration with the Kashmir Wildlife department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis indeed is a tough job which needs courage and art. My endeavour always has been to rescue animals including snakes etc without harming them. The recent case outside Civil Secretariat was a tough job as the reptile had coiled itself and if I would have pulled it, that would have caused harm to it,\u201d Mir told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), in an exclusive interview. \u201cApplying all my mind and art I have learned over the years, I finally succeeded in pulling the reptile without causing any harm to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 41-year-old Mathematician-turned wild life expert, said her effort always remains to reach the spot as early as possible to ensure locals don\u2019t cause harm to the animal. Mir started working as a volunteer with Wildlife SOS in 2007 and later joined as a project manager. She underwent some on-campus training besides certificate courses on handling man-animal conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says that her job does not merely involve catching or rescuing animals or reptiles, but also rehabilitating them. \u201cI don\u2019t remember the exact number, but over the years I have rescued snakes, bears, turtles, birds, bears and leopards from various residential areas in the Srinagar district,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mir\u2019s most famous operations include rescuing poisonous snakes from the residences of former Jammu Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wildlife SOS is a conservation non-profit organisation that has been rescuing and rehabilitating wild animals since 1995, helping in biodiversity conservation. Mir is being praised on the internet for her bravery. \u201cNot easy to deal with snakes\u2026 salute to you,\u201d wrote a netizen. Another one wrote, \u201cThis needs courage\u2026 you have that\u2026 God bless.\u201d Mir urges locals not to harm or attack wild animals and instead call her for the timely rescue. \u201cEvery wild animal deserves respect and love. We have no right to harm them,\u201d she said\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Says have rescued snakes since March this year; My effort always remains no to harm animals while rescuing; Early summer pushing snakes out of hides; Urges locals not to take risk, give respect to animals; always call experts for rescue Srinagar, May 18: Aliya Mir, 41, the lone wildlife expert from Srinagar, is earning fame […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}