Heritage Task Force

Noted animal rights body Heritage Animal Task Force (HATF) has criticised Travancore Devaswom Board for trying to register an 86-year-old "retired" elephant as the oldest living captive jumbo in the Guinness Book of World records.

Over 100 elephants, 85 of them non-captive, have died in Kerala in the last nine months due to various reasons, according to an animal rights outfit.

Noted animal rights group Heritage Task Force has criticised the Kerala Forest Department's move to renew the ownership certificate for captive elephants, holding that the move will lead to the regularisation of illegal ownership of many jumbos.

A Kerala-based animal rights group has found errors in the state government's plan to constitute an Elephant Welfare Board, arguing it violates the provisions of Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and Wildlife Stock Declaration Rule 2013.

Noted animal rights body Heritage Animal Task Force (HATF) has criticised Travancore Devaswom Board for trying to register an 86-year-old "retired" elephant as the oldest living captive jumbo in the Guinness Book of World records.

Over 100 elephants, 85 of them non-captive, have died in Kerala in the last nine months due to various reasons, according to an animal rights outfit.

Noted animal rights group Heritage Task Force has criticised the Kerala Forest Department's move to renew the ownership certificate for captive elephants, holding that the move will lead to the regularisation of illegal ownership of many jumbos.

A Kerala-based animal rights group has found errors in the state government's plan to constitute an Elephant Welfare Board, arguing it violates the provisions of Wildlife Protection Act 1972 and Wildlife Stock Declaration Rule 2013.