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Featured October 10, 2024

Wildlife SOS Celebrates 30 Years Of Saving India’s Wildlife!

Wildlife SOS is honoured to celebrate 30 years of saving India’s precious wildlife. From humble beginnings in 1995 rescuing, treating and rehabilitating animals in distress from a Delhi garage, co-founders Geeta Seshamani and Kartick Satyanarayan have saved hundreds of thousands of animals. From stopping the brutal practice of ‘dancing’ bears and bringing nearly 700 endangered sloth bears to sanctuary, to building India’s first elephant hospital, their success, dedication and compassion has become a model for wildlife conservation in Asia. Motivated by the need they saw around them, Kartick and Geeta used their own personal resources to mount wildlife rescue operations,…

Featured December 12, 2024

Tackling The Ongoing Problem Of Open Wells

Your donations at work – We’ve been able to cover two more open wells! Open wells have been death traps for centuries. Our teams are frequently called to emergency rescues of wildlife that have fallen into deep wells. Sometimes we are successful, and other times we can’t arrive in time and the animal perishes. Many of our supporters have discovered Wildlife SOS from seeing video footage or a lifesaving rescue of leopards, snakes, bears and other species. Although we are proud of our team for their ability to save many of these victims, our priority is to prevent the incidents…

Featured December 12, 2024

Ending The Brutal Centuries-Old Practice Of ‘Begging’ Elephants

Wildlife SOS has a bold plan to save all of India’s begging elephants within the next 5 years. By 2030, the ambitious initiative could make begging elephants a thing of the past. When Wildlife SOS first began the campaign to bring an end to ‘dancing’ bears, most people said it couldn’t be done. In the late 1990s, we embarked on a nationwide effort to save all sloth bears that languished at the end of the rope. By 2009, headlines read “There are no more ‘dancing’ bears in India!” It took a decade of focus to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges, but…

Featured December 7, 2024

Tour For Tusks 2025 USA Speaking Tour

Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating 30 years of saving India’s wildlife as Wildlife SOS presents the Tour for Tusks. This exclusive speaking tour features the premiere of a heartwarming short film about Bani, a rescued baby elephant whose journey to healing will touch your soul. Before the film, Wildlife SOS co-founder Kartick Satyanarayan—renowned conservationist and global advocate for elephants—will share stories of the organization’s vital work to conserve and protect India’s wildlife throughout the years, as well as share our big plans for the future. Following the film, audiences will have the unique opportunity to engage with Kartick…