Vantara – The Story
Vantara is being a recent launch of RIL’s director Anant Ambani, son of business tycoon Mukesh Ambani. Vantara is nothing less than a big animal welfare and rehab center for needy and rescued animals.
Deva, a victim of hunting, nine-year-old leopard Deva sustained many serious wounds and infection on his neck after being trapped in the metal wire for two days. Following information from the forest department, a team of vets and experts from Vantara rushed to the spot and treated the leopard over the next few days, till its complete recovery.
Now as treated, Deva is one of the 2,000-plus animals, which have been rehabilitated as a part of the Vantara animal ecosystem, announced by the Reliance Foundation on Sunday.
A comprehensive Animal Rescue, Care, Conservation and Rehabilitation program, Vantara is a pet project of Anant Ambani, director on the boards of RIL and Reliance Foundation. “We are focused on protecting critically endangered species native to India. We also want to restore vital habitats and address urgent threats to species and establish Vantara as a leading-edge conservation program,” Anant Ambani told reporters on Sunday.
What started as a passion for Anant, while he was still knee-high to a grasshopper, has become a mission now with Vantara.
Sprawled within the green belt of Reliance’s Jamnagar Refinery Complex in Gujarat, the Vantara ecosystem comprises of a 3,000 acres Elephant Centre, which is home to over rescued 200 elephants, as well as ‘Green Zoological Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre’, which is home to over 2,000 animals across 43 species.
‘Vantara’ : An Elephant Centre
Rescued from all over the country, over 200 elephants — injured or rescued from unfortunate situations like circuses — walk the swathes, alongside their mahouts, of the 3000-acre forest, which was a barren parcel until 1998.
‘Vantara’ : A Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre
Tigers rescued from the hunting lodges of South Africa, Pygmy hippos brought in from Sri Lanka while the country was undergoing a financial crisis, over 1,000 crocodiles from a severely overcrowded and congested facility in Tamil Nadu, 200 leopards from all over India, which have suffered injuries in road accidents or man-wild conflicts, lions — these are some of the animals rehabilitated at the 650-acre center.
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