1. 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 the Newsletter for Birdwatchers a periodical that helped birdwatchers around India to communicate their observations.
Zafar Futehally was then offered work at his brother's company, Dynacraft Machine Company from 1942.
Zafar Futehally was run along with his brother and cousin but in 1985 the Futehally brothers were removed from the board.
In 1972, Zafar Futehally moved to Bangalore where he lived for a while in the Palace orchards area before moving to a farm house in Dodda Gubbi on the outskirts of Bangalore.
Zafar Futehally died on 11 August 2013 at his home in Kihim, following a bronchial infection.
Zafar Futehally was cremated at Kihim according to his wishes.
Zafar Futehally took the suggestion and started a column called Birdwatcher's Diary which ran for thirty years.
Zafar Futehally founded the Newsletter for Birdwatchers, a periodical, in 1959.
In 1962 Zafar Futehally became a member of the executive committee of the Bombay Natural History Society and later its Honorary Secretary, a position that he held until 1973 when he moved from Bombay to Bangalore.
Zafar Futehally became Vice-President of the IUCN in 1969, received the Padma Shri in 1970, Order of the Golden Ark in 1980 and the Karnataka Rajyotsava award of 1983.
In 1973, Zafar Futehally was a member of the committee that was set up to study the impact of a dam on the river Kuntipuzha which threatened to destroy the forests of the Silent Valley region.
Zafar Futehally was a steering group member of Project Tiger, during the early years of its establishment.
Zafar Futehally, who was then in WWF-India, was criticized for his support since the IUCN and WWF international did not support the Smithsonian proposal.
Zafar Futehally held the view that private enterprise could be conservation and welfare-oriented, a view which did not receive widespread support.
Zafar Futehally edited and published an anthology of writings by Indian birdwatchers, "India through its birds", which was published in 2007.