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This Elephant Shed Tears When He Was Freed from Chains. Meet the Team That...

Raju the elephant had never experienced life without chains till Wildlife SOS rescued him. When the spiked shackles were cut from his legs, the relief brought tears to his eyes. Read more about his...

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TBI Blogs: Why a Petition Signed by 9,600 Animal Lovers Against a Retail...

A petition started by an NGO has led to a popular e-commerce platform doing its bit for wildlife conservation by refusing to sell snares & traps. In recent years, illegal poaching and trade of...

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TBI Blogs: You Have Probably Never Heard of the World’s Most Trafficked...

A lack of awareness of Pangolins is believed to be one of the primary reasons that poachers have been able to effortlessly traffick the scaly mammal. Pangolins, also known as ‘scaly anteaters,’ are the...

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TBI Blogs: Organisation Pulls All Stops to Rescue Sloth Bear Caught in...

Sloth bears have been declared a ‘Vulnerable Species’ under the IUCN Red Data List, and are poached for their body parts which are believed to have medicinal value. Wildlife SOS recently rescued a...

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TBI Blogs: These 16 Amazing Animal Rescue Stories from India Will Restore...

Wildlife SOS engages in conservation efforts leading to protecting and rescuing orphaned, injured, and displaced wildlife found in urban and rural environments across India. In recent years, habitat...

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VIDEO: Women with Big Hearts Knit Elephant-Sized Sweaters

With the onset of harsh winters, elephants from Mathura found themselves wearing cozy, hand-knitted sweaters and leg warmers. Local women began working on the colourful  jumpers last year for their...

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TBI Blogs: These Former Snake Charmers Used to Display Snakes for a Living....

Exoticized as ‘tradition’ in India, the profession of snake charming is one that is rife with cruelty and mistreatment of snakes. Every year, thousands of snakes are poached from the wild and subjected...

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What to Do If a Leopard Wanders Into a Village? A Microchip Will Rescue the Cat!

The western state of Maharashtra has a rich population of the Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca). For years, they have been living and breeding quietly in their natural habitat, which they happen...

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Video: Here’s How This Team Helped Reunite a Mother Leopard With Her 3 Cubs

Last month, farmers residing in Brahmanwada village, Nashik, spotted three tiny leopard cubs huddled together amidst the dense sugarcane fields while harvesting their crops. The cubs were barely old...

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Saw an Owl in Cage in Your City? Here’s How You Can Save Its Life!

A fluffy ball of feathers, with a tiny hooked beak and big eyes, ever so often hoots from thick foliage after sunset. The Owl, a nocturnal bird, has been a symbol of wisdom, of good omens and evil, in...

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Adorable Leopard Cubs Reunited With Mother, Thanks to This Awesome Vet & His...

Every year, the onset of the harvest season brings about the unavoidable encounter of humans with leopards and leopard cubs seeking refuge in the tall dense sugarcane fields in the state of...

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Wild Animals Aren’t Entertainment: Meet the Amazing Folks Saving Bears &...

Circus used to be an annual show that my friends and I looked forward to as children. The majestic elephant clad in colourful caparisons, the bears who danced on chairs and of course, the roaring lions...

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On Ganesh Chaturthi, Meet 5 Heroes Bringing Tears of Joy & Love to Elephants

The auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi is a good reminder of the cultural significance of elephants in the lives of many Indians. This also makes it an excellent reason why we must remind...

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Why People of Kashmir Call This Former Maths Teacher to Rescue Bears, Leopards

Aaliya Mir, who lives in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, was busy when we called — her phone giving an engaged signal. But we keep trying. The 42-year-old former Maths teacher is famous on the internet...

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‘We Ended the Dancing Bear Practice & Rescued 3,000 Families From Abject...

In 1995, Geeta Seshamani witnessed a sloth bear bobbing up and down in the middle of the Delhi-Agra highway. “The poor bear was being dragged along by a coarse rope that was threaded through his...

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