Zafar Futehally

✶March 19, 1920

†August 11, 2013

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About their life

Zafar Rashid Futehally was an Indian naturalist and conservationist best known for his work as the secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society and for founding the Newsletter for Birdwatchers, a periodical that helped birdwatchers around India communicate their observations. Awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in the year 1971, Zafar Futehally was also honoured with Dutch order of merit the Order of the Golden Ark in 1981 and Karnataka Rajyotsava award by the Government of Karnataka in 1983.

Indian naturalist and conservationist (1920–2013)

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