animal welfare

Young Aditya Ganesh is a budding animal lover who happily went against convention to pursue his passion of zoology and animal care.

ResQ Charitable Trust in Pune rescues and treats injured and sick animals and birds, including dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, elephants, cows and monkeys from across the city.

In today’s age of modern technology, social media is a huge tool and enabler for animal welfare activities in India, from popularising campaigns to highlighting cases of animal cruelty.

The snake is a powerful symbol in Indian mythology and Hinduism. But due to various beliefs and myths surrounding snakes, every year, thousands of them are poached from the forests for snake charming. Rise in awareness, conservation efforts, and stringent law enforcement have led to a gradual decline of this practice in big urban cities.

In a city with hundreds of suffering and homeless birds and animals, Jivdaya, an animal welfare trust is bringing hope and love to Ahmedabad’s furry and feathered residents.

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.

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.

His love for dogs led Md Zabi Khan to start working for animals when he was still in school. He even convinced his college to start an animal shelter.

In recent years, rapid infringement of human settlements and expansion of agriculturally-used land has forced Maharashtra’s leopards to adapt to the changing landscape. Wildlife SOS recently rescued a pair of three-week-old leopard cubs who were happily reunited with their mother near Pune.