Category Archives: Wild Life News

Deer in Treatment Center

We rescue deer from the nearby forests on a regular basis. Sometimes their mother has been killed, sometimes they just wonder too near to villages or are injured. Usually we can treat them and release them in the forest again. Here is one recent patient after treatment and before we brought her to the deer

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Rami the Sloth Bear Cub

Thanks to a string of informants and in coordination with the Forest Department, Karuna’s Secretary Narendra Reddy could locate a Sloth Bear cub and bring her to Karuna. She is female, the size of a big cat, weighing 4 kg on arrival, probably 2.5 month old. At present she is in a safe place for

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Karuna’s Recent Wildlife Rescues

Dear Friends, It has taken us 17 years to built up rescue, shelter and medical facilities for all animals in Puttaparthi and surrounding villages. Starting with dogs, puppies and donkeys, who were most visibly affected when we started, we have now an in- and out-patient facility for small animals, ABC (Animal Birth Control) facilities, a

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Rescue and Release of a Sloth Bear

THE RESCUE AND RELEASEOF A SLOTH BEAR March 2014 In the early hours of 16th February 2014, Narendra Reddy, the secretary of Karuna Society, received a call from the Forest Department that a young Sloth Bear was trapped in barbed wire on the boundary of the mango garden of a farmer from Gunipalli village, (20 KM away from

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