Located in Green Belt of Reliance’s Jamnagar Refinery Complex in Gujarat, Vantara’s goal is to become one of the leading contributors to conservation efforts globally. By working with leading experts in care and wellness of animals, Vantara has changed a huge location to an atmosphere such as forest that imitates natural, rich, green-filled and green-filled housing to thrive of the saved species. Vantara initiative is the first of its kind initiative in India, which has been resolutionized and born under Anantha Ambani’s emotional leadership. Reliance’s ambitious renewable energy business in Ananth Jamnagar is also leading, and in that capacity, Reliance’s journey of becoming a net carbon zero company by 2035.
Here’s a little snippet of His Interview
I am standing in the middle of a state-of-the-art operation theatre, ladies and gentlemen, with the works. In terms of medical equipment, this is even powered by robotics. But the important point is that it’s not for human beings. It’s for lives that we often times don’t value. But perhaps they are most important in our food chain. It’s for wild animals. And it’s perhaps a one-of-a-kind rescue and rehabilitation centre that I find myself in. And I’m so proud to be able to speak with a person who’s at the heart of it all and who has championed it right from the ground up — Mr Anant Ambani. Anant-ji, Namaste.
How are you? Namaste.
Let me first ask you, where are we, and can you take our viewers through this? And then we’ll get into the genesis of where we are in Vantara.
Currently, you are in our large animal operation theatre. This is our hospital. It’s spread over one-and-a-half lakh square feet. You can see we have a gas anaesthesia machine. We have state-of-the-art operation table, operation lights. We have an entire robotic endoscopic machine which we can also do robotic surgery with. We have ventilators. We have everything which is state of the art operation table, operation lights. We have an entire robotic endoscopic machine which we can also do robotic surgery with. We have ventilators. We have everything which is state of the art. I personally have not seen such a well-equipped ICU. So, before I could build this, I visited more than 30 or 40 facilities all across the world, and I took inspiration from every one of them. And those were my inspiration to build this.
True. Now, this is a smaller animal facility. These are primates and felines, and those are the ones which are here. There’s a huge elephant hospital that they’ve also built. That is the Radhe Krishna Elephant Wellbeing Trust. And that was phenomenal to see more than 100 elephants that we saw there.
[At Vantara] Not a single elephant was caged or chained.
Every exhibit was made at a natural way. So we are hoping to open to the public soon. And this is a complete not-for-profit endeavour. We have no business interests in this endeavour.
Fantastic. Phenomenal. And I’m waiting for the day when my kids can also come.
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