Jamnagar: Twenty antelopes and deer arrived at Ahmedabad airport in a jumbo cargo airplane from South Africa for the Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Kingdom being developed in Lalpur, Jamnagar by Reliance Industries Limited. Reliance Industries Ltd has started developing the world's largest zoo, the Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Kingdom, which will be Gujarat's first private zoo. It will span across 280 acres in Lalpur, Jamnagar. On Thursday, 20 deers and antelopes arrived at A...Read More

Jamnagar: Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust near Jamnagar looks after over 150 elephants including abandoned, injured, and aged elephants. Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Trust, located in Khavda was founded in 2013-14. The trust brings abandoned and injured elephants and takes care of them. The elephants are kept there after rescue and they are not used for circus and other activities. The trust gets help from Reliance. The 150 elephants are brought from various states such as Mahara...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court recently dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed questioning many aspects of the Zoo that is being established at Jamnagar Gujarat by the Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre Society at Jamnagar (GZRRC) which is supported by Reliance Industries Limited. The Petition was filed by an activist challenging the setting up of the Zoo, he also sought a ban on GZRRC acquiring animals from within India and abroad as also an SIT to inquire into the operat...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court this week stated in an order that there is no doubt that Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Jamnagar, Gujarat, is a zoo and registered protection center while dismissing public interest litigation (PIL) filed against it. The petitioner, advocate Kanhaiya Kumar, had argued that in the interest of the public, the wildlife, and animals, Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (GZRRC) should be banned from acquiring animals from any perso...Read More

Chennai: Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a PIL that objected to the transfer of the 1,000 crocodiles from the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (MCBT) in Mamallapuram to Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Jam Nagar in Gujarat. The bench of Chief Justice M N Bhandari and Justice N Mala upheld the decision of action of the Tamil Nadu government and the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) while dismissing a PIL petition from A Viswanathan (76) of Chintadripet. The bench said tha...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Thursday, 21st July, questioned the PIL challenging the acquisition and transfer of animals to a private zoo, which is being developed by Reliance Industries Ltd and Green Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre Society. According to the attorney for the petitioner Halar Utkarsh Samiti Trust, the permission was only given for a mini zoo and rescue centre for only leopards, but the zoo is on 171-hectare land whereas it should be on less than 100-hectare...Read More