Karuna’s Wildlife Center

With the creation of the new wildlife rescue centre and the upgrading of facilities and services, our activities of rescue and rehabilitation will make a difference for a large number of wildlife living under extreme difficult conditions. Click Wildlife Centre to see the plan!  

Saving Wildlife Brochure

Please click the below link to see our ‘Saving Wildlife’ brochure, with highlights of all of our activities during the lat 15 years! Saving Wildlife 2000-2015

Bear Cub Rescue and Release!

This little sloth bear was caught by a hunter’s cruel trap. Thankfully, locals heard his cries for help and Karuna Society for Animals and Nature ran to the cub’s rescue! He was released the following day, happy to be back to his forest home.

Bear Ramaa on a Walk

Here is our rescued bear cub Raama, growing bigger every day! Karuna’s President, Clementien Pauws, is holding a small stick so she doesn’t fall when Ramaa unexpectedly jumps on her. Her ‘bear hugs” are not always comfortable but her warmth and love are deep and cannot be refused!!

Bear Ramaa Bottle Fed and Climbing Tree

Raising a single Sloth Bear cub is an intense experience. Ramaa weighed 3 kilograms when she was about 7 weeks old on March 10 and on May 27th she weighed 19 kgs! She plays rough with us, cuddles up, walks with us to visit the monkeys and deer and she is extending her field of

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Bear Ramaa Grows Bigger!

It is amazing how our rescued bear, Ramaa, has grown in only three months! She is thriving and so happy not to be in danger of being in the hands of an abusive owner. We rescued her in time and she never experienced that.

Our Camel Smells the Flowers

We rescued this camel when she was about to be sold for slaughter and meat (she had a sign on her body saying how much she cost per pound!). Now she can smell the sweet flowers and live a worry-free life.

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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