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Corporate Social Responsibility

CSR assistance transforms an NGO from an organization operating on passion to one that can sustainably invest, grow, and execute lasting societal change with professional effectiveness. Unlike individual donations or government grants, successful CSR partnerships often lead to multi-year commitments and assists NGO on various levels. This allows the NGO to plan long-term projects, retain skilled staff, and cover essentials towards the organization's existence, but are often difficult to fund otherwise.
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What entails CSR support for WRRC?

Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (WRRC) operates two critical centres in Karnataka:

  1. Bannerghatta Rehabilitation Centre (BRC) - dedicated to urban wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and community coexistence (outreach and awareness).

  2. Elephant Care Facility (ECF), Kolar - The Elephant Care Facility (ECF) in Kolar is a specialized sanctuary providing lifelong care, rehabilitation, and welfare support for captive elephants rescued from abusive, exploitative,or conflict-prone environments. Elephants require extensive space, dedicated caregivers, specialized veterinary care, and long-term commitment, making ECF a critical welfare institution in Karnataka.
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CSR & Donation Support Areas for WRRC

Bannerghatta Rehabilitation Centre (BRC):

Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation are no longer fringe conservation activities; they are essential public services in rapidly expanding urban landscapes like Bangalore. The Bannerghatta Rehabilitation Centre (BRC), managed by WRRC, fills a critical gap in responding to wildlife emergencies, treating injured animals, supporting Forest Department operations, and conducting public outreach.

Both CSR partnerships and public/individual donations play a vital role in sustaining and expanding this work. Each contribution—big or small—directly impacts the lives of rescued animals and the communities living alongside wildlife.

Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation

Urban wildlife conflict is increasing, and WRRC’s emergency rescue team is often the only lifeline for injured animals. CSR funding and individual donations can strengthen and scale this essential service by:

  1. Supporting rescuer salaries, trained veterinary doctors, and medical attendants who respond to emergency calls around the clock.
  2. Fuel, maintenance, and operational support for the wildlife ambulance, ensuring rapid response during critical situations.
  3. Covering treatment costs for injured, abandoned, and confiscated wildlife, including medicines, diagnostics, and rehabilitation materials, which significantly increases survival rates.
  4. Sponsoring critical rescue equipment including snake hooks, nets, carriers, PPE, safety gear, release cages, and species-specific holding units required for safe and humane handling.

Every donation—whether corporate or individual—directly enhances our ability to respond quickly and professionally to wildlife emergencies.

Infrastructure Development at BRC

The existing wildlife rehabilitation infrastructure at Bannerghatta requires significant upgrading to meet growing demand. Both CSR and donation support can help advance:

  1. Construction and renovation of species-appropriate enclosures: aviaries, reptile units, small mammal enclosures, and permanent care shelters.
  2. Essential facility upgrades such as water supply, electricity, drainage, and sanitation systems.
  3. Enrichment structures—climbing frames, perches, hammocks, ponds, — that promote animal well-being and reduce stress.

Another contribution can be towards supporting a specialized Diagnostic & Medical Equipment Centre at BRC. This centre will house critical tools including:

  • X-ray and ultrasound machines
  • Sterilisation units
  • Blood analysis systems
  • Microscopy and pathology equipment
  • Climate-controlled medicine storage

A dedicated diagnostic building will minimise dependence on external labs, speed up medical decision-making, and markedly improve animal survival outcomes.
CSR and donations can support the civil construction, equipment procurement, installation, and long-term maintenance—creating a permanent asset for wildlife welfare in Karnataka.

Operational Support

Running a wildlife rescue centre involves extensive recurring costs. Both CSR partners and donors can support:

  • Daily operational expenses such as species-appropriate food, medical consumables, sanitation, utilities, and equipment maintenance.
  • Implementation of documentation, data management, and monitoring systems for scientific accuracy, transparency, and compliance.
  • Capacity-building initiatives such as staff training in wildlife handling, first aid, safety protocols, and rescue guidelines.

Donations and CSR support help ensure continuity of operations throughout the year.

Community Outreach Awareness

Reducing wildlife conflict requires informed and engaged communities. CSR and donations can support:

  • School and college workshops, RWA sessions, and urban coexistence campaigns
  • Production of high-quality outreach materials, posters, films, brochures, booklets, display boards.
  • Annual community events, volunteering drives, and public awareness campaigns

These efforts build empathy, improve safety, and nurture a long-term culture of coexistence.

Research & Lifetime Care

WRRC also provides lifetime care for permanently disabled wildlife that cannot return to the wild. Support from CSR donors and individual contributors is crucial to cover:

  • Long-term food, medical treatment, shelter, and enrichment for lifetime residents.
  • Baseline research on urban wildlife trends, conflict hotspots, rehabilitation outcomes, and disease surveillance—critical for policy and conservation planning.
  • Strengthening research capacity through improved data systems, documentation tools, and analysis support.

Both CSR contributions and public donations make this long-term, impactful work possible.

Elephant Care Facility

Elephant Enclosures & Habitat Enhancement

Creating naturalistic, safe, and secure living spaces is the foundation of elephant welfare. CSR funding and donations can support:

  1. Construction of elephant-proof enclosures, spacious sheds, walking tracks, and shade structures to ensure comfort and safety.
  2. Habitat enrichment and restoration within the campus—planting fodder trees,rewilding patches, improving soil quality, creating water ponds, mud wallows, and interactive enrichment zones.
  3. Development of protected grazing areas and safe roaming paths that promote natural behavior, exercise, and psychological well-being.

Such investments build long-term habitat infrastructure that benefits present and future elephants under care.

Veterinary Care & Welfare

Elephants require continuous and highly specialized medical care. Both CSR support and donations can significantly strengthen welfare outcomes by funding:

  • Medical treatments, routine health checks, diagnostics, foot care (a major health need), supplements, and emergency interventions
  • Procurement of species-specific veterinary equipment—foot care tools, treatment kits, ultrasound and diagnostic devices, thermometers, and enrichment materials that support behavior and psychological health. Timely veterinary care is one of the most impactful areas where donor and CSR support directly reduces suffering and enhances elephant health.

Every donation—whether corporate or individual—directly enhances our ability to respond quickly and professionally to wildlife emergencies.

Caregiver and Operations Support

Daily elephant care involves large, skilled teams and substantial operational resources. CSR partners and donors can help sustain:

  1. Salaries for caregivers/mahouts, veterinary support staff, assistants, and ground teams.
  2. Recurring operational costs include fodder procurement, safe transportation, water supply systems, electricity, and facility maintenance.
  3. Staff safety infrastructure—protective equipment, handling tools, safety barriers, and training to ensure staff work safely around large animals.

Support in this category ensures uninterrupted, dignified, and compassionate care for elephants every single day.

Research, Documentation & Elephant Welfare Programs

ECF plays a key role in long-term welfare monitoring and the development of standards for captive elephant management. CSR and donations can support:

  1. Long-term behavior and welfare monitoring, medical documentation, and research on improving captive elephant well-being.
  2. Development and implementation of behavior-based enrichment programs and welfare improvement pilots that enhance mental stimulation and reduce stress.
  3. Creation of educational materials, guides, documentation, short films, and awareness programs that help the public understand captive elephant issues and promote humane management practices. Such knowledge-building initiatives contribute to national-level improvements in captive elephant welfare and policy.

Every donation—whether corporate or individual—directly enhances our ability to respond quickly and professionally to wildlife emergencies.

CSR Compliance, SDGs & ESG Goals

CSR Compliance

Supporting WRRC’s Bannerghatta Rehabilitation Centre (BRC) and Elephant Care Facility (ECF) directly aligns with India’s CSR compliance mandates under Schedule VII of the Companies Act, 2013, particularly:

  • Environmental sustainability & ecological balance
  • Protection of flora and fauna
  • Animal welfare
  • Conservation of natural resources
  • Promoting preventive healthcare (veterinary welfare)

These activities fall squarely within approved CSR domains, making partnerships with WRRC fully CSR-compliant.

ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance)

For companies pursuing ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) commitments, WRRC offers a measurable, high-impact way to strengthen environmental and social stewardship. Wildlife rescue, elephant welfare, human–wildlife conflict mitigation, and scientific rehabilitation practices contribute directly to:

  • E (Environmental):biodiversity protection, ecological restoration, reduced mortality of wildlife, and healthier ecosystems.
  • S (Social):community safety, awareness programs, training, and coexistence strategies.
  • G (Governance): transparent reporting, documented impact, measurable outcomes

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

WRRC’s work also advances several UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including:

  • SDG 3 – Good Health & Well-being (animal health & community safety)
  • SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities (urban wildlife management)
  • SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption & Production (waste reduction, rehabilitation)
  • SDG 13 – Climate Action (ecosystem resilience)
  • SDG 15 – Life on Land (wildlife rescue, habitat protection, species welfare)

By supporting WRRC, companies not only meet statutory CSR requirements but also demonstrate leadership in environmental responsibility, build positive brand value, and contribute to long-term ecological resilience in Karnataka.

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FORESTS FOR ELEPHANTS

WRRC’s Human-Elephant Conflict Work in Assam

A Joint Initiative of WRRC and Elefanten in Not 

In the tea gardens of Golaghat District, Assam, elephants and humans share an increasingly fragile boundary. For over two decades, a slow-motion tragedy has unfolded around Numaligarh. Ancient elephant corridors have been silently annexed by tea plantations and rice paddies. What remains of natural habitat, including the Nambor Wildlife Sanctuary, is shrinking under deforestation, settlements, and the scars of illegal sand mining from riverbeds.

The consequences are dire. Elephants requiring 200–300 kg of food daily — can no longer find their natural diet. Forced into rice paddies, many herds in Golaghat now subsist almost entirely on rice, weakening their immune systems and causing long-term nutritional deficiencies. In this region, human-elephant conflict claims an average of ten lives every year. Two deaths occurred during EIN’s own field visit in December 2025.

WRRC has partnered with Elefanten in Not (EIN), a Swiss elephant conservation organisation, to address this conflict through a nature-based solution: planting elephant-preferred medicinal and nutritional tree species along tea estate edges — creating what the project calls a “Forest Pharmacy.” EIN has already established this approach, with 120 trees planted across 13 species in 2024–25; this year’s phase will more than triple that, with a target of around 400 new trees.

Tea gardens in Assam are vital refuges and wildlife corridors. Importantly, elephants do not eat or damage tea plants — conflict arises not from the plantations themselves, but from the boundaries where passing herds encounter crops, people, and fences. By restoring elephant-preferred species along these edges, the project gives elephants what they need — food, shelter, medicine — without them needing to venture further into human settlements.

The Science: A Forest Pharmacy for Elephants

Elephants are known to self-medicate — instinctively seeking out specific trees to treat parasites, infections, and digestive issues. This behaviour, known as zoopharmacognosy, means the choice of species planted is not incidental but deeply deliberate.

Building on the 120 trees EIN planted across 13 species in 2024–25, the 2026–27 plan targets approximately 400 new trees across 20 species:

  • Elephant Apple (Dillenia indica) — 30 trees, a nutritional cornerstone of elephant diet
  • Amla (Phyllanthus emblica) & Jamun (Syzygium cumini) — antioxidant-rich fruit trees
  • Neem (Azadirachta indica) & Arjun (Terminalia arjuna) — known for anti-parasitic and cardiac properties
  • Jackfruit, Mango, Starfruit, Tamarind — high-energy fruiting species reducing pressure on crop land
  • Ficus spp., Kadam, Kumbhi — shade and browse species supporting elephant movement

Khar Grass (Saccharum spontaneum) and Bamboo will be planted in surrounding areas — young shoots of both are favourite elephant foods and will further reduce encroachment into adjacent farmland.

The project will also prioritise reconnecting fragmented forest land, with Nambor Wildlife Sanctuary high on the agenda for future corridor work.

Bamboo shoots being prepared for planting

Research Confirms the Urgency

Microscopic analysis of elephant dung from herds living in human-dominated areas revealed a heavy parasite load — worms and single-celled organisms throughout. Dung from a herd living in an intact forest fragment nearby showed no parasites whatsoever.

Scientific studies confirm that elephants instinctively combat intestinal parasites by seeking out banana and papaya leaves, whose compounds actively suppress parasites. But they can only self-medicate if the medicinal plants exist. The Forest Pharmacy is not just a feeding strategy; it is a health intervention.

Foundation Already in Place

EIN has been building this groundwork in Golaghat since 2024. The relationships, trust, and infrastructure are already in place. In November–December 2025, EIN established two field test plots that proved the logistics and secured the community partnerships needed to scale up:

Test Plot I — Kalyani River: 120 trees across 13 species were planted along the Kalyani River on land provided by tea grower— an active elephant crossing point. Protective bamboo-pole fencing and a plastic-bottle drip irrigation system were devised to carry the saplings through the dry season to the monsoon. The District Magistrate, Mr. Rananmay Baradwaj, visited the site personally and planted several trees himself, pledging support through the Forest Department’s greenhouse.

Test Plot II — Naga Chili Deterrent: A complementary experiment tested a non-lethal crop deterrent: ropes soaked in a paste of Naga chili (the world’s hottest variety), cow dung, and clay, strung around a ripe rice paddy. For five days, the elephants avoided the protected field — a promising result that will be tested at larger scale in the next harvest season.

Across both phases, the team has achieved:

  • Strong working relationships with the Assam Forest Department — the forest department has pledged full support; the Golaghat Forest Department has no dedicated elephant funds and relies on this project
  • Community networks with local villages, tea estate owners, and the Joint Forest Management Committee
  • 40,000 awareness pamphlets in Assamese + 10,000 A3 posters distributed to schools and households across the region
  • 20 road warning signs installed at critical elephant crossing points on NH39, in collaboration with the Forest Department
  • Dedicated local team: Dr. Rajeev Basumatary (Field Director), Papul Konwar (Field Assistant), and Bonoshri (zoologist monitoring human and elephant casualties)
  • Drone-based land assessment with Dr. Rajeev as licensed aerial operator; WhatsApp elephant monitoring network established
  • Kalyani Tea Estate owner Mr. Sudhir Roy has committed land for the 2026 main planting season, to be protected with solar-powered fencing
  • Phase 1 and Phase 2 reports completed; educational filming and school screening programme underway

Team photo of plantations

April 2026 – January 2027

  • Q1 (April–June 2026): Land preparation, soil work, barrier installation, procurement, and planting at Bogidhola Tea Estate — ~400 trees timed with monsoon onset
  • Q2 (July–September 2026): Post-planting survival monitoring, weeding, barrier maintenance, school programme expansion, half-year report
  • Q3 (October–December 2026): Survival counts, replanting where needed, community feedback meetings, elephant monitoring
  • Q4 (January 2027): Final data collection, comprehensive narrative and financial report.