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Call ambulance to help animal
An animal clinic complete with a full-fledged ambulance service is no more confined to the domain of NGOs.
The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has taken up the issue and the group is working at roping in the state government and private sector companies in a novel 'bhagidari' scheme for animals.
The group has approached the Meghalaya chief wildlife warden and chief conservator of forests, seeking a plot in the Garo Hills to build an animal clinic with ambulance services.
It has offered to ferry distressed animals to the clinic, release them in the wild after treatment, save the orphaned young ones when their mothers are found dead in the jungles and sensitise the forest-dwelling locals about the necessity of protecting wildlife.
They also plan to train and employ the locals to help them track, ferry and handle the distressed animals. Wild animals in the Garo Hills who are not able to move will be served with mobile veterinary service (MVS) vans equipped with a mini operation theatre, medicines, helpers and a vet.
Asked if providing mobile services would be more dangerous than handling animals in conservation, WTI project officer Pragya Panda said, "We are already running four vans in different jungles.
Three are in the north-east one in the Manas National Park in lower Assam, one in the Kaziranga National Park and another in the Pakke Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh. The fourth is in the Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve in Uttaranchal. The results are exciting."
The group feels if the Meghalaya government gives the green signal, a breakthrough against poachers would be possible in these forests. The NGO group got a shot in the arm when Assam-based Oil India Limited (OIL) donated a fully equipped pick-up van.
WTI vet-in-chief Dr N V K Ashraf said, "Oil India's help has done a lot of good to the wildlife population in lower Assam." At Kaziranga, the group has constructed a Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) which has helped in checking the poaching of rhinos.
The ministry of environment and forests has also appreciated the group's efforts. It bore the cost of transforming five vehicles into MVS units which effectively increased the group's MVS inventory to nine. For Corbett, the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) donated an MVS a few months ago.
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