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
On the occasion of World Wildlife Day on March 3rd, a team from Karuna Society and the local Forest Department conducted an awareness drive in the surrounding villages on March 2nd, about Forest fires and hunting. Forest fires are a common occurrence especially during the hot summer months and we urged the villagers to
Our hand-raised Slothbear Ramaa was a few months old but not yet in direct contact with the other adult bears. As she needed to explore relationships, practise new skills and find the outside world, we took her out for walks in the sanctuary. She was still a toddler and instinctively stayed close to the “Mother”,
The biggest threat to life that urban monkeys face is electrocution on the live electric wires seen everywhere. These sweet and innocent monkey babies were injured and lost their limbs and their families. They have all recovered after months of treatment and nursing, and have now formed a troop with other
I am sure all of us animal lovers have stories of how we have helped the animals around us! One example of this happened several days ago with a little traumatised bird found laying on the ground, after it had crashed into a window. Many times we at Karuna are not able to do much
Krishna has been with us for over 11 years! He is a male sloth bear, rescued in 2009 after being abandoned by his mother in the forest, and discovered by villagers. His brother Arjuna was rescued on the same day. Now he is really happy being free in our big “Bear Paradise” compound, with his
Please check your vehicles for animals before getting in to drive! This pretty yellow guy was hiding in a tire, but was unable to come out due to a crowd of people gathered around watching. Thankfully Karuna’s Wildlife Manager hero Crystal got him out single-handedly and released him in a safe are far from human
We found this little guy, an Indian Pond Terrapin turtle, fallen in a dumpster and unable to climb out. We rescued it and checked it thoroughly but happily, there were no injuries, so we safely released it into the free wild again!
Our Wildlife Keeper, Keshava (shown in green shirt, mixing feed), cracked a joke, and Rama the bear couldn’t contain her laughter! Bear Giri is beside Rama, and he is trying to figure out what is so funny…😂😂 Photo Credit Krystal Joan