[6] In recognition of his services to society and his efforts in conserving various vulnerable species of snakes endemic to the state, Suresh was offered a government job[7] in 2012 by minister K. B. Ganesh Kumar, at the snake park that would be set up at the Kottur forest area near Kattakada in Thiruvananthapuram.

Suresh declined, stating that he would be prevented from helping the society in his usual manner, if he accepted the position.

According to an interview by the news channel ABP Majha, conducted on 5 June 2012, Suresh admitted to being kept on a ventilator twice and in ICU four times.

Suresh provided a statement to police regarding the habits and abilities of Indian cobras and Russell's vipers in connection to the death of Uthra, a young wife and mother, who was killed by a snakebite inflicted while she was asleep on 7 May 2020, in Anchal, Kerala.

In November 2013, during his visit to Kerala, Britain's Prince Charles expressed his desire to meet Vava Suresh and a rendezvous was arranged in Vazhachaal in Thrissur.

Many say the snakes he has caught won't survive due to injuries caused by his unscientific handling of them.