The big loser at CITES Conference of the Parties 20 was the saiga antelope, native to host nation Uzbekistan SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan––Elephants, rhinos, giraffes, white-tipped sharks, peregrine falcons, and the Vantara captive wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat state, India, were among the big winners at the twentieth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the […]
Why is Vantara hiring flacks & lawyers instead of just explaining itself?
Vantara founder Anant Ambani may have good reasons for doing things differently from the international conservation establishment, but he has not done a good job of explaining why JAMNAGAR, India––Somewhere between 5,000 and 7,500 years ago, Biblical tradition and Mesopotamian texts have it, a man named Noah built a huge ark, he claimed under orders […]
Vantara: billionaire-built zoo/sanctuary has conservationists in a dither
Nobody knows quite what to make of the state-of-the-art facility begun by Anant Ambani, 29, but it has taken in thousands of animals from often dire situations JAMNAGAR, India––A global chorus of conservationists are currently bashing Anant Ambani, 29, son of the reputed twelfth richest man in the world, for allegedly building the world’s […]