Yes, I have known Neil Soares for many, many years. He is the man who fearlessly handles the large black Heterometrus scorpions sending shivers down many a damsel's spine venturing out with him on nature outings. He has quite a formidable knowledge of Mumbai flora, and I must add, quite disconcerting when he points to to a tree, or shrub and causually asks me, 'tell me what is this species?'. Apart from flora Neil is also interested in other facets of nature and ever ready to share his knowledge. Quite a popular guy on nature camps and I understand, very handy at spotting forest denizens on night walks. Someone, at some point of time referred to him once as 'golden heart' but I am quite sure he was not entirely comfortable with that cognomen. Dr Neil Soares is a practicing dermatologist but I can assure you his interest in nature is definitely more than skin-deep!
Cheers, Kiran Srivastava Mumbai p.s. Apologies, Neil, if I have left out the good bits of your profile! On 9/21/09, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > Dr. Neil has been with us since Sept.'07- almost a founding member. > And he has been keeping a low profile, but very consistent in extending help > to 'Indiantreepix' like our 'Mr. Consistant' Dr. Satish Phadke. > A close friend of Dr. Almeida, who visits his farm in Sahapur regularly, > where he has a great collection of innumerable wild species. > He is quite knowledgeable about Flora in & around Mumbai, though being a > busy practicing Doctor in Mumbai (I think so, though I may be wrong) > I don't know much about him (which possibly other members can highlight), > but his contribution to the group is immense, particularly in its infancy > when there were hardly many experts on the group except him. > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of thousands of my images of Birds, Butterflies, Flora etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- > Indiantreepix:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
