Dear Friends of Karuna, It has been a long time since you heard from us about the progress of our new wildlife rescue centre development. Our plan is to write a number of newsletters to you, highlighting our efforts to rescue and save wildlife from our area. We will also share with you the lives
On October 16th at about 4pm, we received a call from the Puttaparthi District Forest Officer (DFO) Mr. Ravindranath Reddy, seeking our help to rescue a bear cub at Gudibanda Mandal, Mandalapalli village (94 km from Puttaparthi). Due to heavy rains and thunder we could only leave the next morning at about 4 am: the
The Peacock is the most beautiful National bird of India, Schedule 1. From the last two months, we received 4 Peacocks (1 male and 3 female): two from Narpala village, one from Kalyandurg range, and one from Bukkapatnam range, Puttaparthi. We received all the birds in a similar condition, partially paralyzed, could not fly and
We have more than a couple of dozen Black Bucks and Sambar Deer, rescued as injured or orphans and facing sure death in the forest. We have a big compound where they run around free. Our caretakers feed each deer 10kgs of Super Napier grass per day, as well as 4 kgs of a soaked
A few days ago we were called to the rescue of a three month old monkey, sitting unresponsive on the road. We thought he might have been electrocuted but that turned out not to be the case. The Forest Department handed the little one over to Karuna for treatment and care. We
Karuna Society has seven peafowl birds living as permanent residents in our Sanctuary. They were rescued over the course of several years, most in a helpless situation and just days from sure death alone in the wild. The Forest Department handed them over to us to care for them and rehabilitate, if possible. Unfortunately all
Recently we rescued two helpless little monkeys, who are now pals living lovingly together while they heal! The elder monkey is 3-4 months old and was rescued after being electrocuted. The other one was only a few days old when his mother leaped from one tree to the other and missed, falling to her death.
We currently have 23 Black Bucks and 4 Sambar deer, all rescued after injury or other trauma and brought to us by the Forest Department. Here, our veterinarian Dr. Pratap Reddy with helper Sudhakar, gently treats one of the Sambar deer. Please do support our work, thank you so much!
Ramaa our rescued bear, heard the voice of her foster mother, Clementien, and came running up a tree in her compound to see her! (The tree is actually far from the wall, but in the photo it looks much closer.) Many of you will remember how Clementien and our other staff had to hand-rear Ramaa
Here are a few gorgeous action shots thanks to Neelakanteshwara Raju, a recent visitor to our Wildlife Sanctuary! We have over 40 rescued deer in our Sanctuary – antelope, black bucks and sambar deer. Most of them were handed over by the local Forest Department after joint rescue efforts between us. Sometimes they can be