Let’s together be the light of their lives!

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The famous American author Daniel Quinn once quoted, ‘The world doesn’t belong to us. We belong to the world.’ When mankind is still squabbling over the ownership of the earth, recent global events suggest that nature has already activated the Clock of Retribution. Amid this mess, there is still some light at the end of the tunnel. Stories like that of ‘Anju’ show that to us.

Recently, PfA Wildlife Hospital and Rescue centre in Kengeri, took aboard an Indian Bonnet Macaque that was severely injured. Our veterinarian team at PfA found out that the injuries were nearly fatal and the macaque would not have survived if not for the benevolence of Dr Indu who decided to rescue her from the roadside of Chikkaballapur and bring her down to the hospital at Kengeri. After a detailed check-up, it was suspected that the macaque has a head injury. She was rendered blind by that horrid accident and was not able to move around. 



We were put in a difficult position and decided to do a CT scan of the macaque. Dr Indu benevolently agreed to pay for her treatment and the veterinary team took her to CESNA veterinary hospital at Bangalore for a detailed CT scan. It was diagnosed that her skull had multiple fractures. She was brought back into PfA Wildlife Hospital and put under an intricate treatment regime. With days going by, she started showing improvements and lo and behold, her vision is partially back. Though she has started to eat on her own, she hasn’t started moving around. She was named Anju, and our team at PfA is trying our best to bring her back to normalcy. 

We witness stories like Anju’s every day. From common species like Kites, Bonnet Macaques, Parakeets and Squirrels, to species that people are not even aware that they live amongst them, like Slender Lorises, Spotted Deer, Civet Cats and Pangolins. This untamed 6-acres of land in the outskirts of Bangalore is an interim home to the injured or orphaned or displaced urban wildlife of Bangalore. We are a non-profit organisation that rescues, treats and rehabilitates urban wild animals across the city to ultimately release them back into their natural habitats. We have rescued more than 25,000 urban wild animals of over 200 species till date.

If you would like to support us in preserving the diminishing urban wildlife of the city, kindly contact us @ gm@peopleforanimalsbangalore.org  
For more details, please visit www.pfaWildlifeHospital.org 

Comments

  1. NavazFebruary 15, 2020 at 1:55 PM

    Fabulous work PFA.

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  2. Suresh MenonJuly 14, 2020 at 3:12 PM

    PFA Bangalore certainly deserve heart felt appreciation for the humane gesture to all lovely brethren species inside our metropolis.

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