Elephants will no longer be part of India’s Republic Day parades. This welcome decision will be a shot in the arm for those who would like to see abuse of our heritage animals stopped. The first step was when the Ministry of Environment & Forests during the tenure of Jairam Ramesh declared heritage status for the elephant. While […]
Forest watcher B. Suresh, 26, was among tiger victims
B. Suresh, 26, a forest watcher at the Balle-Moorkal camp west of Nagarahole National Park, India, was on the morning of November 30, 2013 the third of five people killed by tigers in or near the intersection of Nagarahole and the Bandipur Tiger Reserve. Suresh was killed […]
Anti-sacrifice & cockfighting activist Sumitra Behera, 42
Sumitra Behera, 42, of Sarsara Balanga village in Sundargarh district, Odisha, India, was found dead with her skull crushed on January 3, 2014, about 200 meters from her home. “My wife was an active campaigner against animal sacrifice and had always opposed cockfights. She had earlier received threats from several people. I suspect they might […]
Mission Rabies vaccinates 60,000 dogs in 10 Indian cities in 30 days
Exceeded target by 10,000 NILGIRIS, Tamil Nadu, India––Vaccinating 60,000 dogs in 30 days at 10 rabies hot spots around India, Mission Rabies exceeded its preliminary target by 10,000 and kept right on rolling, vaccinating another 30,000 and sterilizing more than 9,000 during the next five months. Mission Rabies “will continue for three years, with a goal […]
Food Security & Farm Animal Welfare by Sofia Parente [WSPA] and Heleen van de Weerd [CIWF]
Free 20-page download from ciwf.org/foodsecurity Based on: The Impact of Industrial Grain Fed Livestock Production on Food Security: an extended literature review, by Karl-Heinz Erb, Andreas Mayer, Thomas Kastner, Kristine-Elena Sallet, and Helmut Haberl, Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna; free 90-page download from: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/socec/inhalt/1818.htm Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Having commissioned a 90-page analysis of The Impact […]
Camel Rescue Centre in India is world’s first
Only the second dedicated camel hospital in the world JAIPUR, India–Help In Suffering on March 13, 2011 opened a new Camel Rescue Centre at Bassi, on the outskirts of Jaipur––apparently the first facility built specifically to help camels in humane movement history, and only the second dedicated camel hospital in the world. The first was the Dubai […]
Bear rescue season follows tsunami
Wildlife SOS on the job AGRA, CHENGDU––Wildlife SOS founder Kartick Satyanarayan spent most of the first two months of 2005 often literally up to his hips in post-tsunami swamp water and sometimes displaced salt water crocodiles, gorged on human remains. Still, Satyanarayan did not forget that his primary objective for the year was to rescue […]
How no-kill dog control came to Kolkata, India
by Debasis Chakrabarti, founder, Compassionate Crusaders Trust (June 2003) Kolkata (Calcutta) is the largest truly no-kill city in the world. It grieves me beyond measure to think of the possibility of a resumption of slaughter of street dogs. I would like to share our experience with everyone involved in this work, because I believe that the method we use […]