Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation is essential in conserving local wildlife populations and is critical in sustaining the balance of nature and countering multiple manmade threats that are so recurrent in a city. Rescue and rehabilitation translated mean the science of treating and providing temporary care for injured or displaced wildlife and the subsequent return of healthy individuals to appropriate habitats. Till date, the PAWS – Mumbai rescue team has rescued many snakes, parrots, mongoose, monitor lizards, muniyas, kites, owls, treated them and thereafter released them back into the wild. All this work has been acknowledged and backed by the city’s wildlife department. Keeping watch on wildlife trade & organizing raids.
Humane Education
With the help of mediums like video screening, live talks and interaction, the society tries to create awareness about animal welfare and inform the public about animal laws and issues related to it. PAWS – Mumbai strongly feels that humane education is essential if the condition of animals has to improve.
Adoptions & Rehoming
Innumerable homeless and abandoned animals have been re-homed through our adoption Scheme. Adoption is done only after rigorous interviews.
Legal Issues & Cruelty Cases
Members of the PAWS – Mumbai team and Honorary Animal Welfare Officers also investigate cruelty cases, which include rescue calls. PAWS – Mumbai also initiates action against people inflicting cruelty on animals and inspect circuses and zoos. Inspection reports are thereafter sent to the respective authorities to further investigation.
First Aid for Strays
PAWS – Mumbai trustees and volunteers personally pound the pavements treating injured animals. Almost every evening and after work hours, PAWS - Mumbai volunteers go seeking out sick, injured animals on the road and give them some much-needed first aid. At times, the volunteers forward cases to the veterinarians or take them to nearest hospital by ambulance; in past we use to take them by bike or a hired vehicle. There have also been instances where members of the group have treated and removed maggots from the animals like dogs, cats and cows.
Ambulance Service *
PAWS-Mumbai as two ambulance to help city animals in distress, one of it is run to attend (take) accident, wounded, ill stray animals calls to the nearest clinic or to the hospital and to take dogs for ABC. And other one is especially use for wildlife rescue found in city limit and we also provide our ambulance to wildlife department for transport of rescued wildlife during raids.
Sterilization & Vaccination
As everybody know that Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has stopped killing dogs. Unfortunately, they have doe little to assist in the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme for street dogs.
This is another area where PAWS – Mumbai has done managed to do a good job sans a hospital. PAWS – Mumbai team members pick up cats and dogs from the street, from compounds and colonies and take them in our ambulance to nearest ABC center and gets them sterilized. The animals are later released back into the areas they were picked up from. These dogs and cats are also branded to ensure that everyone knows that they are sterilized and vaccinated against rabies.
The PAWS – Mumbai team also goes into localities around the city and conducts vaccination camps for stray dogs and cats so that they are immunized against rabies. These animals are also de-wormed on a regular basis.
Help & Co-ordinate with Other Like Minded NGOs
PAWS – Mumbai aims at helping and co-ordinating activities with other like-minded NGO’s so that it can reach out to more animals. At PAWS – Mumbai, we sincerely feel that the animal welfare movement should grow and in keeping with our mission, ‘together we can and we will make a difference’ will happen only when we co-ordinate our activities with other like minded NGOs.
Tree Plantation & Illegal Tree Cutting Issue
PAWS-Mumbai also undertakes tree plantation drives and takes up cudgels on the behalf of those who oppose tree cutting. For example, if someone complains about illegal tree cutting in their neighborhood, we follow up the complaint with an investigation and also inform the local Police and BMC authorities about the misdemeanor.
