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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!

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

Nasdaq Closing Bell

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.

TreeHugger

February 21, 2022

Conservationist Advocates for Asian Elephants in Her Hometown

Independent

July 2, 2021

Covid escalates elephant killings in eastern India to ‘crisis proportions’

The New Indian Express

September 7, 2020

A mammoth move

Times of India

January 26, 2020

The one thing that keeps the Indian elephants still protected is reverence in the heart of the villagers

The Hindu

November 16, 2019

Power corridor to give safe passage for wildlife

Northeast Now

June 21, 2019

Instant writ-petition filed in Gauhati High Court to prevent journey of 4 elephants to Ahmedabad

The Statesman

July 21, 2021

Electrocution threat to pachyderms in Odisha

BBC

September 7, 2020

The woman trying to save India's tortured temple elephants

The Better India

September 7, 2020

Meet the Kerala Woman Fighting with All Her Might to Protect India’s Elephants from Abuse

The New Indian Express

November 18, 2019

Committee formed to conserve wild elephants in Kerala

The New Indian Express

November 16, 2019

Kerala mulls training programme for mahouts by world-renowned experts

India Weekly

July 7, 2021

An elephant crisis silently unfolds in Odisha during pandemic

Times of India

September 7, 2020

Committee formed to end elephant torture

On Manorama

June 7, 2020

Torture in captivity kills more elephants in Kerala, but perpetrators go scot-free

The New Indian Express

November 18, 2019

Woman who made documentary on elephants in Kerala faces cyber-bullying

Medium

September 2, 2019

If You Love Elephants, You Need to See This Film

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ABOUT US

VFAE is a registered 501(c)(3) organization, with a mission is to protecting the endangered Asian elephants and their habitats in India, while ensuring that our projects employ the native people living near the forest fringes, and provide them with basic needs, so they will be inspired to conserve the natural world and coexist peacefully with these magnificent animals.

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