To help rescued jumbos, buy miniature painted by Big B, SRK

Agra: Wildlife SOS has at the India Art Fair 2016 set up an exhibit and sale counter of exquisitely-painted fibre glass jumbo sculptures, which have been made by renowned artists and celebrities in support of the Elephant Conservation and Care Centre run by the NGO in Mathura. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with People For Animals and Art Alive Gallery to raise funds for the care of 21 rescued pachyderms who are under the care of wildlife SOS.
The foot-high sculptures on display at the expo have been designed by artist Shiv Singh then sculpted by Kapil Kapoor. Each piece was then worked on by an Indian artist or celebrity to create a unique, one-of-its-kind piece in support of the NGOs work with the rescued pachyderms. The 44 sculptures, include works by Indian artists like Farhad Hussain, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Arpana Caur, George Martin and Jogen Chowdhury and celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan. The expo which started on January 28 will continue till January to 31 in Okhla, New Delhi.
“The NGO provides treatment and care for 21 elephants. The ECCC has open fields where the jumbos can go for their daily walks and trees for them to scratch themselves on. The facility is like the one they would live in if they were in their natural habitat. Water pools have also been provided to the elephants for baths. The ECCC is flanked by 215 acres of forest on one side and a river on the other side,” said Kartick Satyanarayan from Wildlife SOS.
Wildlife SOS started as the country’s first Elephant Conservation and Care Centre (ECCC) in 1998. The NGO also successfully brought an end to the 400-year-old practice of dancing bears in India and built a bear sanctuaries that houses over 628 bears.