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HELP A MONKEY

DID YOU KNOW?
If we keep destroying their habitat, then someday ours will be destroyed too. Immunocontraception is a
We must learn how to show compassion to others — including animals. We must technique that has worked
learn how to protect and preserve non domesticated animals and forests of India. worldwide to control monkey
population without
Let us read how some people and organisations are already making eff orts towards this.
harming them.
Sunayana Majhi, Class 8E, Shri Shikshayatan School, Kolkata; Amudhini Venkat, Class 2, Auro Mirra International School,
Bangalore; Shaunak N. Parab, Class 6C, The Rosary High School, Cujira, Bambolim, Panaji
WE CARE HELPING HANDS

 Eff orts are being made to care for monkeys by animal Our nation is blessed with many NGOs and government
welfare organisations, charitable trusts, societies for organizations who care for animals. These are:
prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA) and kind-
hearted individuals.  Animal Welfare Board of Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care
India Centre
 They have set up rescue homes, animal shelters, and
 Federation of Indian Animal Peta India
sanctuaries where animals and birds in distress stay
under protection. Protection Organization Circle of Animal Lovers
National Institute of Animal Animal Rahat
 Many organisations run hospitals and health care
Welfare Furry Flyers
centres for animals and birds, maintaining mobile
dispensaries and keeping ambulance vans for People for Animals India  Wildlife SOS
transporting ill and injured animals. Wildlife Trust of
India
 The animal welfare organisations, societies and
charitable trusts are mostly non-profi t organizations. Friendicoes
Blue Cross of India
THEY NEED YOUR HELP TOO…

THE PRIMATE PROJECT ACTIVITY: MONKEY SAVIOUR
Monkeys in Kerala’s Kannur district have
The Indo-US Primate Project is a collaborative programme a saviour in the form of an elderly lady,
between JNV University, Jodhpur, with international Manikamma. Read about her eff orts in:
organisations. It is funded by the United States India Fund. https://www.onmanorama.com/kerala/
The project began in the northeast and the Kumbalgarh top-news/2019/04/20/this-elderly- Illustration by:
Sanctuary in Rajasthan in 1994. The aim of this project is to woman-saviour-monkey-troop.html Class 10, Raksha
Anusandhan
get foreign research to India to better our eff orts at saving Vidyalaya, Dehradun
Write about a monkey saviour in your region.
monkeys and other primates. Studying illegal trade,
habitat, and population are some of the main objectives.
PROTECT MONKEYS IN THE WILD
Jivaj Goyal, Class 4, Delhi Public School, Miyapur
The following steps will help protect monkeys and other
animals in our national parks:
DHYAN FOUNDATION RAWW 1. Slow down signs for vehicles.
2. Special corridors and more
The Dhyan Foundation has The Resqink Association
plantation to support animals.
a special project for helping for Wildlife Welfare or 3. Responsible safaris, to ensure
monkeys. They have realised RAWW works on human- minimal human interference in
that even though there is so monkey confl icts. They the lives of wild animals.
much cultural value attached have realised that it is 4. Banning of hunting,
essential that humans deforestation, and encroach-
to monkeys, they often Illustration by: Tiameren
realise that the cause ment. Jamir, Class 4C, St.
face brutal treatment. They Columba's School, Delhi
of this confl ict is them 5. Local citizens (who rely on this
work in Delhi, Vrindavan,
and not monkeys. They natural heritage) should take steps and spread
Hyderabad, Tirupati and
educate people on how awareness to protect the species.
Mysore to put an end to this to handle the ‘monkey Nuha Dayamanavar, Class 9, St. Anthony's Public School, Hubli;
injustice. menace’ in urban spaces. R. Chinmaya, Class 7, St. Isabels’ Girls Higher Secondary School, Pattukkottai

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