Category: animal sanctuary
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About horse rescue, horse sanctuaries and quality of life
It is not only about the transport Having a suitable, ideally purpose-built, and affordable vehicle available to safely transport an injured horse to a safer location for further care and treatment is a luxury that is often not available. This is especially true in situations concerning horses belonging to the unorganized sector. This means tourist…
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IPAN & Hill View Farm Animal Refuge
Past and Present – in brief Past India Project for Animals and Nature (IPAN) was registered and recognized by AWBI in 2002 to run the animal sanctuary based at the Hill View Farm in Mavanalla village, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. What begun as mainly an animal refuge, over the years developed into a base from where…
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Hill View Farm vermicompost and no-dig garden
A big part of the life at the Hill View Farm revolves around cleaning animal sheds, stalls and enclosures. With over 200 resident animals, most of them horses/ponies/donkeys or cattle/buffaloes/goats, there is A LOT of manure being produced on a daily basis. And all this manure has to be taken somewhere after it has been…
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Animal hospital, shelter or sanctuary?
Animal shelter is a very commonly used word in India to describe a various set ups providing housing and veterinary care usually for street dogs as well as for any abandoned and rescued animals of different species. Every now and then in newspapers you also read about plans to establish big shelters to round up…