International Organisations to Youth Awareness: Reliance Foundation’s Vantara Spreads its Web Wide

The Reliance Industries and Reliance Foundation’s Vantara programme announced on Monday has gained tremendously by working with international and national organisations of great repute.

The Vantara (Star of the Forest) programme is an umbrella initiative to focus on rescue, treatment, care and rehabilitation of injured, abused and threatened animals, both in India and abroad. The Vantara initiative, the first-of-its-kind in India, has been conceptualised and birthed under the passionate leadership of Anant Ambani, Director on the boards of RIL and Reliance Foundation.

Spread over 3,000 acres within the Green Belt of Reliance’s Jamnagar Refinery Complex in Gujarat, Vantara aims to be one of the leading contributors to conservation efforts globally.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

The Vantara programme has worked with international organisations such as the Venezuelan National Foundation of Zoos and associating with reputable organisations worldwide such as the Smithsonian and the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

In India, it collaborates with the National Zoological Park, Assam State Zoo, Nagaland Zoological Park, Sardar Patel Zoological Park etc.

EDUCATION AND AWARENESS

In order to increase awareness of conservation issues among people, particularly the youth and children, the Vantara initiative envisages close collaboration with educational institutions, including knowledge and resource exchange. It also envisages creation of a display area for some of the animals in modern and futuristic, climate controlled enclosures setting new standards in compassion and care.

GREEN AREAS

Firmly believing that rescue and conservation of animals must go hand-in-hand with greening initiatives, the Vantara programme also envisages a continuing greening of the Reliance Refinery areas and has already greened thousands of acres of land.