About: James Reid

Growing up in rural areas of Northern Malawi, farming had been a daily activity. I and my family had been used to wake up early in the morning around 4 a.m. to tend to our farm. During the preparation of the 2002-2003 growing season, one morning in November 2002 with no moonlight, we went to  Continue Reading »

I was born in Valencia, a city on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. From childhood I developed a vocation to know the nature, in particular the fauna, of my environment. During the three months of summer vacations, which I spent with my brothers and cousins half naked and feral among the orange trees of our grandmother’s  Continue Reading »

My journey with snakebite victims began with my MD dissertation where I explored the question of adrenal hormone deficiency after Russell’s viper bites in Southern India. Not only was I intrigued by how each envenoming played out like a new episode in a thriller drama where the difference in the amount and nature of venom,  Continue Reading »

I started off as an excited kid with lots of questions about snakes, while trying to understand why people kill them on sight. As I grew up, oblivious about the pain and suffering, the internet first arrived in the villages of West Bengal around 1998. Of course, frustratingly slow. As I started reading the occasional  Continue Reading »

I am an executive member at Society for Nature Conservation, Research and Community Engagement – (CONCERN) and at the same time pursuing a PhD from Annamalai University. My first grant on snakebite research and mitigation is the grant from the Hamish Ogston Foundation in partnership with the Global Snakebite Initiative. My project is focused on  Continue Reading »