Jalore (Rajasthan): At a time when man-animal conflict around the world is causing ecological imbalance, a man from Rajasthan's Jalore district is doing the noble job of treating injured animals as a step towards wildlife conservation.
Piraram Dhayal, a resident of Deora village in the district, quit his CRPF job after working for five years in the 1990s. He wanted to devote his entire time to an initiative which would enable him to work for injured animals instead.
It was in 2009 that Dhayal with the help of a few villagers planted 6,000 saplings along the National Highway near Dhamana village. Thanks to the special care provided by Dhayal, the saplings in the garden eventually grew into full-size trees.
Subsequently in 2003, Dhayal started a rescue centre for injured deer and other animals at the same Amrita Devi garden. For the past seven years, animals like deer, rabbits, monkeys, nilgais, and even peacocks, which are injured in car accidents or attacked by other wild animals, are treated at the rescue centre.
Over the past seven years, Dhayal said that he has treated more than 900 wounded deer and released them into the wild. Currently, around 50 deer remain at the garden and are being carefully looked after by Dhayal.
Dhayal said it was only due to the cooperation of the villagers, who were planning to plant seeds on the barren land, that the garden could be made. Subsequently, it was on this garden that the rescue centre was later made.
