Animal Welfare

Durga puja is the biggest festival of West Bengal and celebrated with equal grandeur across India and several parts of the world. However, this year, it has become all the more special with UNESCO announcing Durga puja as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. On World Environmental Health Day, 26th September, The CSR Journal...

If you are fond of eco-friendly, Bangalore’s Go Native restaurant is just the place to be! Right from lighting up the dining area with solar power to sourcing local farm fresh products to plastic-free packaging, Go Native chain of restaurants is setting an inspiring example for everyone to follow. Talking about the same, Go Native...

Gujarat: Tata Chemicals through its Save Whale Shark Campaign has saved over 850 of these endangered species till date in the Saurashtra region along the coastline of Gujarat. This initiative of Tata Chemicals, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the Gujarat Forest Department has garnered extensive support from the fishing communities of Gujarat resulting...

Ever since 2004, International Dog Day is celebrated on the 26th of August every year to spread the message encouraging people to adopt more dogs instead of buying them. However, even in 2022, disturbing pieces of news like ‘stray dog tortured and killed’, ‘dog brutally tortured’, ‘puppy beaten/strangled to death’ continue to make their...

Women who keep pet cats and dogs often prefer to call themselves ‘cat mom’ or ‘dog mom’. But have you ever heard about an elephant mom? On World Elephant Day, The CSR Journal brings to you an exciting tale of an ‘elephant mom’! California-based software engineer Ankita Banerjee narrates the story of how she...

Mumbai girl Kahani Kaintura and her mother have been rescuing stray dogs in the city ever since the Covid-19 pandemic induced lockdown happened two years ago. Why did they suddenly start feeding and rescuing stray dogs? Sharing her story, Kahani told The CSR Journal, “I and my mom started this around two years ago in...

Indian Oil Corporation has made a commitment to contribute to relocate Cheetah from Africa to India from its CSR funds. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Indian Oil Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) wherein IOC would give Rs 50.22 crore over four years for the project. The project now costs...

Srinivasan Services Trust (SST), the social arm of Sundaram-Clayton Limited and TVS Motor Company, today handed over 180 numbers of high luminescent searchlights and 12 numbers of GPS to Directors of Mudumalai, Sathyamangalam and Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserves as part of wildlife conservation initiatives in Tamil Nadu.  The high luminescent flashlights would be extremely...

Helping Hands For Animals, a Ghaziabad-based Animal welfare NGO, has successfully conducted vaccination campaigns for street dogs. The campaign aims to keep the rabies outbreaks under control, and make the region secure for people and animals, both. The vaccination drive is in line with the larger objective of the NGO, to eradicate rabies bites...

Srinivasan Services Trust (SST), the social arm of Sundaram-Clayton Limited and TVS Motor Company, handed over 20 numbers of Fenix LR 50R high luminescent searchlights, 100 numbers of Fenix TR 16 searchlights, 25 numbers of camera traps, 12 numbers of GPS, 600 numbers of memory cards for tiger census, 360 numbers of raincoats to...

There is need for stronger enforcement of animal welfare standards and law enforcement against cruelty to animals, especially at local levels of government. An advisory board of leading animal welfare experts released the first ever State of Pet Homelessness Index at the Habitat Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Mars Petcare India. This is the...

The pandemic not only saw a rise in requests on social media from rescuers, shelters, NGOs, and other individuals to share adoption appeals but also in the number of aspirant pet parents looking for pets to adopt. Mars Petcare and Petsy with its virtual pet adoption portal brings together both these stakeholders together and...