Vantara launches landmark elephant welfare programme in collaboration with Venture Elephant

Vantara, a wildlife conservation initiative led by Anant Ambani, has partnered with Venture Elephant below the Union Ministry of Atmosphere, Forest and Local weather Change, to host the ‘Vantara Gajsevak Sammelan’, a five-day coaching programme for over 100 mahouts and elephant caregivers from throughout India.

After efficiently finishing the coaching program, every participant might be awarded a certificates.

Based on Vantara’s information launch, the purpose of this national-level capacity-building effort is to enhance skilled competence, enhance care requirements, and promote finest practices within the welfare of elephants below human care.

The occasion started with a maha aarti and ceremonial greeting on the Radhe Krishna Temple, laying the groundwork for an encounter that will be each spiritually and professionally enlightening.

“This Sammelan is greater than a coaching programme, it’s a tribute to those that dedicate their lives to elephant care,” stated Vivaan Karani, Chief Government Officer, Vantara.

Karani added, “Our goal is to unite conventional knowledge with trendy science to construct a stronger, extra compassionate basis for his or her wellbeing. It reaffirms that the way forward for elephant conservation in India relies upon not simply on coverage or habitat—but additionally on the empowered palms and hearts of their caregivers.”

The Sammelan supplies a mix of peer-to-peer studying, scientific schooling, and field-based expertise at its state-of-the-art facility in Jamnagar, which is run by the Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Belief, a nonprofit organisation below the Vantara initiative.

With the intention to present them with sensible coaching in each day husbandry routines, foot care, bathing protocols, constructive reinforcement strategies, musth administration, and conventional Ayurvedic therapies, individuals are divided into teams and rotate by means of designated elephant care zones, such because the Gajwan, Gajraj Nagari, and Ganesh Nagari.

Knowledgeable-led scientific workshops that cowl necessary matters such elephant biology, stress identification, widespread sicknesses, and emergency therapy for recumbent elephants are held along with the sensible modules.

In recognition of their essential function within the long-term welfare of elephants, a particular part can also be dedicated to the occupational well being, security, and well-being of caregivers.

To advertise information alternate and regional collaboration, the Sammelan contains structured reflection classes and dialogue boards the place elephant carers from throughout the nation can share their experiences, deal with widespread challenges, and be taught from each other.

The Sammelan goals to create a nationwide group of skilled and compassionate elephant carers who’re united by a standard purpose to selling elephant welfare through each scientific improvement and conventional information.

Vantara, residence to over 250 rescued elephants and supported by a devoted workforce of over 500 caregivers, a lot of whom have been as soon as in distressed or marginalised circumstances, exemplifies how enriched and compassionate care can remodel lives.

Vantara is devoted to elevating worldwide and nationwide requirements for animal care and continues funding capability constructing initiatives. It’s working with authorities to host a lot of landmark occasions, such because the Nationwide Zoo Administrators’ Convention in October, the Nationwide Veterinary Coaching on Introduction to Conservation Drugs in August, and the continuing worldwide coaching program for Congolese wildlife officers. These boards carry collectively specialists, practitioners, and legislators to encourage cooperation, alternate information, and advance finest practices in wildlife conservation and care.