Introducing a new partner group - Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals
AAA has committed to support the Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals (VSPCA) in 2024 thanks to the support of friend to all animals, Philip Wollen. Please read on to see how Philip’s and your support will change the lives of working animals in Visakhapatnam.
Recently, the VSPCA team, led by Pradeep Kumar Nath recently rescued two buffalos and a pony from dire situations.
The two buffalos, one male called Raju, and one female called Sravani, were rescued from farmers who were negotiating the handover of Raju and Sravani to an illegal slaughter house. Sravani was used for milk, but with her milk capacity finished, she was used for some time for ploughing, however in retirement, she was worth more to the farmer if he sold her to be slaughtered. Raju was also exploited in the fields for ploughing, and both animals were abused, underfed and not given any veterinary check ups or care.
The pony, Rani, was originally most likely used to earn a living for her owners through entertainment, joyrides or training. She was then taken in by an organisation that was setting up a shelter, however they were unable to look after Rani or a number of other animals who were rescued from starvation.
Rani, Raju and Sravani are all now safe and well-cared for at the VSPCA sanctuary. A photo of them can be seen at the top of this update.
Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals [ VSPCA] helps many animals including wild and domestic but it is working animals where our support will be focussed on in 2024.
AAA will be assisting VSPCA to provide working animal protection & rehabilitation by
· Provide protection, rehabilitation and care to 4 male buffalos, 4 female buffalos and 1 horse at shelter 1 in Visakhatnam
· Provide protection, rehabilitation & care to 24 buffalos and 3 horses at Kindness Farm in Visakhatnam. (Total of 36 animals sponsored)
· Provide protection, rehabilitation and care to all 28 animals including:
o Providing food
o Health upkeep
o Water
o Shelter
o Medical treatment
VSPCA Background Information
VSPCA has achieved a significant track record in the rescue, protection, rehabilitation, and care of animals who have served humans from ancient times. These are the community’s (sadly) “farmed” animals such as horses and bulls/oxen/male calves vital for rural and urban-based agriculture, religious, and transportation industries, cows for their reproduction of male calves and eons-old service in dairy industries, parrots who tragically serve astrologer livelihoods, rhesus macaques/monkeys who still heart-breakingly serve wayfarers in making a living in street entertainment, roosters and rams harmed through the local fighting rings, even sea animals such as sharks, shrimp, fishes and lobsters in the seafood and aquarium industries, and many such animals transported in an out of farms (agriculture and aqua-industries included) and cities in the service of humans.
Bullocks and Male Buffalos: Since, the Visakhapatnam region is predominantly agrarian there are a huge number of Bulls, Oxen and Male Buffalos which are used as modes of transportation, agricultural labour and also in Oil manufacturing units where the animals are tied around the grinder, then they are made to walk around the grinder in a circular motion for grinding the pulses.
Working Animals in Tourism Industries: Horses: Beach tourism in Visakhapatnam is the most celebrated and promoted industry and it has horse joy rides as an attractive means. Most of the owners, who bring horses for riding abuse, neglect and abandon them once they get old and sick. We have been rescuing tens of such horses from the unethical riding practices and cruel ownership rehabilitated them at our sanctuaries. Over 4 Horses are sheltered presently
• To ensure VSPCA’s position of strength in coming decades of climate uncertainty (which will affect farms and negatively impact all farmed animals) and give the above-mentioned farmed animals their due for their undying service, and to develop the society's norm for respecting each farmed animal individual and their family, we aim at:
• Bolstering revenues for maintenance expenditures (- a) facility upkeep, b) year-round animal care and feed, c) worker compensation, and d) education & awareness in the villages and the city) at Kindness Farm and The Shelter for not just current survivors of these industries, but more of those who continue to languish in their confinement.
• Significantly expanding VSPCA’s successful models of protection, rehabilitation and care for all types of farmed animals so that the message is clear and consistent to the corporates, farmers, fishers, government, education institutions, and the residents of rural and urban Visakhapatnam—that farmed animals deserve to live a life of freedom in family and community—as humans do.
• Beyond the generosity of a few donors supporting day-to-day operations at VSPCA, we identify the following longer-term objectives for the health and well-being of all varieties of “farmed” animals:
THE GOAL
• Make efforts to not only meet but expand VSPCA Society’s initiatives along with operational expenditures for farmed animals, while building up VSPCA’s farmed animal protection network working toward farmed-animal freedom and equity as legal residents of territories they are born in.
THE OBJECTIVES
• Obtain funds for annual maintenance of current, and annually-forecasted rescue of, farmed animals (constructed through VSPCA’s capacity)—in Visakhapatnam district—based on VSPCA’s experience with trends around farmed animals.
• Obtain limited funds for the purposes of evolving a forecasted revenue stream to support VSPCA’s steady progress with farmed animals that will involve champions of farmed animals in the city, to initiate farmed animal rescues and plan for their housing.
• Funds for testing new initiatives for animals near farms—such as monkeys (entertainment complexes), tortoises (animal flesh & shell traders), birds (flesh, entertainment, pet, & body-part industries), sea animals (aquarium & aquaculture complexes), and migratory animals and birds (poaching complexes for many nefarious purposes)—at risk of capture by profiteering humans.
• Manage these revenues to expand VSPCA-grown and manufactured farm-to-table organic, health-giving, and nutritious produce—through and in support of all farmed animals—such that models of VSPCA’s farmed animal protection become normative in the region.
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