Animal Welfare

“Sometimes the animal doesn’t want to be friendly because they’re too scared. So they have to be carried in the net. A few minutes of discomfort means a lifetime of freedom.”

Amruta Ubale talks about her NGO's work in Naxal areas, helping border officials at night in areas known for criminal activities.

Bengalureans are outraged, and rightly so by this outright injustice meted out to man's best friend by the BBMP.

In Mumbai, a passerby found Anaya on the railway tracks presumably hit by a train and bleeding profusely.

As for the laws that protect the rights of animals in India at present, they are defined as 'property' (with limited instances of some rights being granted).

In Kovalam, Kerala, the couple has found their calling-taking care of animals that need help.

Freshwater species like the Ganges river dolphin and Indus dolphins reside in India in the Ganga and Beas rivers, respectively, and the Indus river dolphin is a rare aquatic mammal found only in India and Pakistan!

Cubs often get separated from their mothers when the leopards venture out to hunt, leaving their off-springs in dens or in the dense sugarcane fields that are abundantly found in this region.

Panchot has an informal village trust christened the ‘Madh ni Pati Kutariya Trust’ which holds this land. And while the land may not technically be in the dogs’ names, all the income from the land is set aside for the dogs.

When these villagers in Spiti Valley captured a snow leopard that had wandered into a residential area, they performed a rare act of kindness to release it back into the wild!