Gary Montague-Fryer's Profile

Gary Montague-Fryer has many years experience in reptile consultancy, conservation and rehabilitation. He has initiated many educational and conservation programmes in South Africa. Gary has a particular interest in venomous snakes, snakebite and venom research, maintaining around thirty snakes at his home in Cape Town. Gary presents courses on snake handling, and is regularly consulted on snake-bite issues, reptile husbandry and problem animal removal.

He has also initiated many problem reptile programs, including being a founder member of the Catchers Panel, which was established to represent the snake rescuers community in the Western Cape, and to act as a facilitator between this community and Cape Nature.

Gary's experience teaching has enabled WCSC's seminars to be able to reach any audience; our training, snake awareness and snakebite protocol seminars have been presented to a wide range of clients, including farm, mine and oil plant workers, HSE personnel, medical personnel and company directors.



Quotes:

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.  ~Henry David Thoreau

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.  ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.  ~Bernand De Voto, Fortune, June 1947

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will people be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste.  ~Wallace Stegner, letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center, 3 December 1960 (Thanks, Bekah)

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time. ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.  But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer.  Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wildlife's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.  ~Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.  If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.  ~Edward O. Wilson

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