Our impact
What the team has done since 2012, and who has recognised it.
Since 2012
The work, in numbers
- Animals, birds and reptiles rescued
- 15,000+
- Rescues from wells, borewells and drains
- 3,000+
- Years on call
- 14
- Children reached with kite-safety guidance, 2025–26
- 1 lakh
Rescue figures cover 2012 to today. The organisation is recognised by the Government of India and the Government of Gujarat, and on Independence Day 2025 was commended by the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Gujarat, for outstanding work in wildlife and environment conservation.
What we have done
- Around 15,000 animals, birds and reptiles rescued since 2012.
- Around 3,000 rescue operations involving animals trapped in wells, storm-water and sewer lines, fallen into borewells, or caught in nets and mesh.
- Bird rescue camps run every year for ten years under the Karuna Abhiyan — Save the Birds — campaign, treating injured birds.
- Relief work during the Odisha floods, the Banaskantha floods, and in the areas around Ahmedabad.
- Field work through the Lumpy Skin Disease outbreak in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
- Public awareness programmes in schools and colleges.
- In 2025–26, safe Uttarayan guidance delivered to around one lakh children across Gujarat — reaching 25,000 students, 440 teaching staff and 389 government and private schools.
Recognition and awards
- Recognised by the Government of India, the Government of Gujarat and other institutions.
- 15 August 2025: a certificate of commendation from the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Head of the Forest Force, Dr A. P. Singh, at the 79th Independence Day celebration in Gandhinagar, for outstanding work in wildlife and environment conservation in Ahmedabad district.
- Certificates from the Gujarat Forest Department for the team’s work in the Karuna Abhiyan, the state’s campaign for birds injured during Uttarayan, in 2017, 2019 and every year from 2021 to 2026 — and before it, for the Save Bird Campaigns of 2014–15 and 2016.
- Karuna Abhiyan 2023: commended by Gujarat’s Forest ministers for helping run a bird treatment centre in Valsad district.
- Certificates from Jivdaya Charitable Trust, Ahmedabad, for the Save Bird Campaign of 2016, for saving birds from dehydration in the summer of 2017, and for the team’s work in 2018.
- A Corona Warriors certificate from Krushnanagar Police Station, Ahmedabad, for the team’s service during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Letters of thanks, for rescues on their premises and for talks, from the Indian Air Force, the Airports Authority of India at Ahmedabad airport, Western Railway, the Gujarat Police and the State Reserve Police, 108 emergency services, government offices and training institutes, colleges, schools and companies across Ahmedabad.
- Certificates, medals and trophies awarded in recognition of the team’s work.
- Congratulatory messages from the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Bhupendra Patel — among them a letter of 23 January 2024 — and from Union and State Ministers.
- Members of Parliament, MLAs and local corporators have visited the organisation in person and supported its work.