Animal Welfare

From adopting an abandoned puppy in 2006, Anjali Kakti went on to feed countless dogs around Delhi and launched a feeding charity that anyone can replicate.

Ghaziabad-based physiotherapist Aaditi Badam left her career to rescue and rehabilitate abandoned and injured stray animals, and now wishes to set up a physiotherapy centre for them.

When Avital (Tali) Datskovsky came to Rajasthan as part of the William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India to work on a project conserving local knowledge and traditions at the verge of extinction, little did she know that a tiger conservation project in a nearby forest had a crucial role to play.

Dr. Swathi Rao, a senior veterinarian at Maruthi pet care clinic in Bangalore, tells all about the most important things to keep in mind when rescuing an animal.

Art can be a great driver for social change. Encapsulating that sentiment, mural artist Amitabh Kumar talks about creating a mural that captures the suffering of battery hens in India.

Animal activist Abhinav Srihan is trying to save the abandoned, starved and locked up cows of Mahoba district in Bundelkhand.

Adopting a pet is probably one of life’s greatest joys. But before you choose to make that life changing decision, you must sit down and think it through.

Over the years, the population of sloth bears in the wild has been threatened due to loss of habitat and poaching, making them a vulnerable species, protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Recently, a 10-week-old bear cub was rescued after its mother was electrocuted by high tension wires in Madhya Pradesh.

Illustrator Alicia Souza writes about Henry, her guinea pig, and how he came into her life from Charlie’s Animal Rescue Centre.

Illustrator Alicia Souza writes about her dog Charlie and why she encourages adoption of strays.