Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Services provided for elephants by the DVCS

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• Providing tranquilization service for any emergency and as a preventive measure for any religious, cultural, state function or festival.
• Providing health care for privately owned captives in temples, parks, and welfare organizations.
• Providing advice on request to the Department of National Zoological Gardens, Department of Wildlife Conservation and safaris.
• Assisting the development of special management projects for government and private institutes with elephants.
• Providing advice on request to the Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Conservation.
• Carrying out research on elephants and supervising undergraduates and postgraduates on various research projects on captive and wild elephants.
• Assisting local and international agencies on designing guidelines on providing management and health care for elephants.
• Educating various groups of children and the public.
• Educating various categories of zoo and wildlife workers about elephants.