30/08/2025
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Over 50 NGOs, including PETA India, urge the Tamil Nadu’s Ministers of Forests and Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments, as well as to Uttarakhand’s Minister of Forest, to choose kindness and modernity by accepting a mechanical elephant offered by Chennai-based People For Cattle In India - PFCI for temple use and ensure a calf is either rewilded or, if not possible, sent to a sanctuary where he can live free, unchained, with other elephants.
The temple’s last elephant, Gandhimati, died after suffering diabetes from a poor diet and painful arthritis, caused by prolonged chaining on concrete.
Transfer of this calf from Uttarakhand to Tamil Nadu for temple use would apparently violate the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, the Captive Elephant (Transfer or Transport) Rules, 2024, and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
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