people for animals

Animal welfare advocacy is slowly gaining acceptance and following in India, but activists continue to run into trouble with funding, legal problems, and apathy. However, this has not deterred several individuals and organisations from fighting for the rights of all kinds of animals and birds.

People for Animals, a Hyderabad-based voluntary organisation, issues these identification cards to make feeding strays and taking care of their rescue and welfare easier.

The government recently announced new laws banning the depiction of cruelty or violence towards animals in any form on television, cable and other broadcasting networks. Here's why it is important.

We have hospitals and clinics to cater to our ill and infirm. But who takes care of the injured and sick wildlife forced to share space with us in our concrete jungles? Meet a band of wonderful people from the Bangalore chapter of People for Wildlife, who rescue and rehabilitate these helpless creatures.

The 64-year-old, a former senior officer at the State Bank of India, talks about his disabled and wounded dogs like a father about his children—with the same love, affection, warmth, and tenderness. In taking care of them, Mahendra Shrimali says, “I feel that I have finally found my purpose as a human being; I have found the thing I was always supposed to do.”