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£10 can help end the cruel exploitation of Rangoli and other Amer Fort elephants by raising public awareness.
Help elephants at Amer Fort
Donate for elephantsEvery day, elephants at Amer Fort are suffering in the name of tourist entertainment. Help them today.
Donate £20
£20 can help the elephants’ caretakers find alternative livelihoods, where the exploitation of elephants is no longer necessary.
Donate £30
£30 can help to develop a sustainable plan to care for Rangoli and the other elephants, by pressuring the Indian government to commit to working with us.
The 80 elephants at Amer Fort need you. Amer Fort is a tourist attraction in India where sick, blind, and suffering elephants are forced to give tourists rides hour after hour. Day after day. For years and years.
We are pressing the Rajasthan Government to stop elephants from being used to carry tourists to India’s Amer Fort. The suffering these majestic animals endure is horrendous.
Training elephants for this work involves an intense and stressful breaking-in process. These elephants are torn from their mothers, broken into submission, and controlled with bull hooks.
When they are not giving rides to tourists, these gentle giants are cruelly chained in isolated pens where they cannot roam freely as they would in the wild. They suffer physical and psychological trauma that the visitors to Amer Fort cannot see.
Rangoli's story
Rangoli was born at the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Amer Fort, into a life of pain, captivity, and cruelty. For her entire 51-year life, Rangoli has suffered for the entertainment of tourists.
Currently, Rangoli is forced to carry tourists on her back, which is painful and creates sores. Rangoli endures this pain while walking over hot concrete and brutal cobblestones that damage their feet every day. Only to then spend her nights standing in her own faeces, while chained when she ‘rests’.
With your support, we can help end elephant rides at Amer Fort and begin the process of safely retiring Rangoli and all 80 elephants that are suffering.
A “once-in-a-lifetime” experience for you is a lifetime of suffering for them. Now is our moment to end this cruelty.
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Get involved
Please help us save Rangoli and the other 80 elephants from being used as rides at Amer Fort, by putting pressure on the Rajasthan government through talking and public appeals. With your support, we will work to help ensure that this is the last generation of elephants in cruel captivity – so that future generations of elephants are free of suffering.
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We will use your donation where the need is greatest to protect animals, like those featured in this appeal, from cruelty and suffering.