Vantara: Oil massage, millet meal! The royal hospitality of over 200 elephants at Vantara! PiPa News

Vantara, a dream project of Reliance Foundation under the leadership of Anant Ambani, is a haven for wildlife and birds. Especially for orphaned and homeless elephants, Vantara feels like their own home. Here are elephants rescued from circuses and other accidents. Oil massage is done here for the elephants. Ragimudde food was served and royal hospitality was served.

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There is a story behind elephants

Every elephant here tells a story. Lilavati, a pre-covid circus elephant, survived her burns. Its care is taken care of by Mawut, the elephant’s caretaker himself. Medical oxygen is given to their burns in a hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT) room in the hospital. This facility is the first of its kind in India, most of the elephant burns have been healed and now there are only a few partial burns.

There are more than 200 elephants here

Like Lilavati, about 200 elephants are getting a comfortable environment and medical care at Vantara’s Elephant Center in Jamnagar. Reliance Industries and Reliance Foundation announced the launch of their Vantara program to focus on the rescue, treatment, care and rehabilitation of injured, abused and threatened animals in India and abroad.

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Elephants have different facilities

Spread over 3,000 hectares of land, the camp can be seen early in the morning, with elephants rolling in the mud, bathing, playing, getting hot oil massages, playing multani mitti or just roaming around.

Royal hospitality for elephants

Hot oil massage, hydrotherapy pool, large elephant jacuzzi, acupuncture, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and laser therapy facilities are used to treat animal wounds and common diseases such as endometriosis, cataracts using a combination of modern and traditional methods of medicine. Along with this, drugs are prescribed for arthritis, kidney stones, tumors and others.

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Animal feeding system

The animals are fed water that Jiloy drinks on an empty stomach every morning to increase the animal’s immunity. According to Dr Petra Wolf, a nutritionist at the elephant camp who designs the daily diet, the elephants’ meals are planned and adapted to their medical conditions.

Prepare food keeping in mind the medical condition of elephants

There are a total of 15 kitchens and each kitchen can produce about one ton of food per day. The kitchen supplies or prepares 350 kilograms of millet pulp, 680 kilograms of khichdi, one tonne of fruits and 1.5 tonnes of vegetables every day. Wolf explained that each elephant’s diet is planned after observing the medical health history and minute details of each elephant.

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First attempt in the world

The center is the dream project of Ananth Ambani, director of Reliance Industries Limited and Reliance Foundation. The center has a 25,000 square feet elephant hospital, the largest in the entire world. We rescued the first elephant in 2008, officials said, adding that efforts intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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