Reliance Foundation on Monday announced an innovative animal rescue, conservation, and rehabilitation initiative, in Gujarat’s Jamnagar. Named Vantara, the program is dedicated to the rescue, treatment, and rehabilitation of injured, abused, and endangered animals, both in India and abroad.
Anant Ambani, Director of Reliance Foundation, said that the wildlife rescue center began during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve developed a 600-acre sanctuary. We created an entire habitat for the elephants and in 2008, we rescued our first elephant. The Greens Zoological Rescue Center was started in 2020…We have a total of about 3,000 people working for Green’s Zoological Research and Rescue Center,” he said.
“We have saved more than 200 elephants and brought them here from all parts of the country. We do ‘sewa’ of elephants here. This is not a zoological park but a ‘sewalaya’. The 600-acre area has been developed as a natural habitat for elephants,” he added.
Equipped with cutting-edge technology, the veterinary hospital boasts MRI and CT scan machines, robotic endoscopic surgery facilities, and six surgical centers. Ambani also highlighted the hospital’s provision of prosthetics for animals in need.
The zoological park will soon be accessible to the public.