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Media Coverage

Watch Sangita Iyer Ring the Nasdaq Closing Bell

Click the thumbnail to view this event in honor of World Elephant Day 2024 as Sangita Iyer, Founding Executive Director for VFAE, rings the Nasdaq Closing Bell and raises her voice for the elephants!

We are witnessing the ravages of climate change around the world, and elephants are natural climate mitigators that need to be saved from extinction.

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Good Morning America - GMA3 segment

World Elephant Day 2022 was a great opportunity to amplify the exploitation of "festival elephants" on the world's most watched morning shows - ABC Network's Good Morning America.

i24 News

Captivity Kills! That's the dire message by Sangita Iyer, as she discusses the plight of festival elephants on one of the popular TV cables - i24 News.

CTV Canada's #1 Network

World Elephant Day 2022 was a great opportunity to amplify the exploitation of "festival elephants" on the world's most watched morning shows - ABC Network's Good Morning America.

Watch Sangita with OP Talks on Saving Asian Elephants | Gods in Shackles, Robotic Elephants

A journey of compassion, courage, and resistance — revealing the truth behind captivity and the hope of humane, culture-friendly alternatives.

Film on elephant torture to be screened on July 11

July 6, 2016

Times of India
Film on elephant torture to be screened on July 11

Gods In Shackles': Elephant Agony Reaches Kerala Assembly

June 30, 2016

NDTV
Gods In Shackles': Elephant Agony Reaches Kerala Assembly

Gods in Shackles

May 23, 2016

PETA
Gods in Shackles

VFAE launches ‘Shiva Shakthi’: A robotic solution to Kerala’s captive elephant crisis

VFAE launches ‘Shiva Shakthi’: A robotic solution to Kerala’s captive elephant crisis

New documentary exposes brutal treatment of India's temple elephants

July 5, 2016

The Telegraph
New documentary exposes brutal treatment of India's temple elephants

Gods in shackles: Documentary on elephants at law makers' doorstep

June 30, 2016

India Today
Gods in shackles: Documentary on elephants at law makers' doorstep

Gods in Shackles | The Endangered Asian Elephant

December 30, 2015

Indiaspora
Gods in Shackles | The Endangered Asian Elephant

Culture misused to cover abuse of elephants: Sangita

July 2, 2016

Times of India
Culture misused to cover abuse of elephants: Sangita

Tortured, Starved: Documentary Exposes Abuse of Temple Elephants in Kerala, India

May 30, 2016

Nature World News
Tortured, Starved: Documentary Exposes Abuse of Temple Elephants in Kerala, India

Elephant Beaten And Blinded In The Name Of 'God'

December 11, 2015

The Dodo
Elephant Beaten And Blinded In The Name Of 'God'

Culture misused to cover abuse of elephants: Sangita

July 2, 2016

The Economic Times
Culture misused to cover abuse of elephants: Sangita

New Film Shows Brutalization of Temple Elephants in India

May 26, 2016

National Geographic
New Film Shows Brutalization of Temple Elephants in India

Elephants Chained All Day And Night In The Name Of Religion

September 15, 2015

The Dodo
Elephants Chained All Day And Night In The Name Of Religion

Film on elephant torture to be screened on July 11

July 6, 2016

Times of India

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