अभी कार्रवाई करें: हाथी मधुरी को फिर से वैन्तरा अभयारण्य में भेजने की आवश्यकता

URGENT: Act Now to Help Elephant Madhuri Return to Her Sanctuary Home

Following efforts by PETA India, over a year ago, a High-powered Committee of the Indian Supreme Court, the Bombay High Court and Indian Supreme Court ordered or upheld orders for lonely and ailing elephant Madhuri to be transferred from a temple where she had been chained, alone, for 33 years, to the Vantara elephant rehabilitation center in western India.

However, after a boycott of products connected to the business that owns Vantara and a sustained political campaign to force her return—on September 9, 2026, the HPC ordered her to be returned to the same bleak and lonely shed at the temple that drove her to kill its priest in 2017 and attack a bystander in 2022.

The latest order follows Vantara’s decision to actively turn its back on Madhuri during the HPC meeting by supporting her return to the temple. This is despite long-distance transport back to the temple being dangerous for Madhuri, her continued need for specialized veterinary care that does not exist at the temple, and the breaking of the deep elephant bonds she has formed during rehabilitation at Vantara. Madhuri has been betrayed and needs your help NOW!

During her time chained and forced to live nearly stationary on concrete at the temple, Madhuri developed irreversible ailments, including chronic foot disease and arthritis. After being relocated to Vantara, Madhuri has been receiving specialized veterinary care and lives in the company of other elephants. Socialization is essential for female elephants, who in nature live in multi-generational family herds. Vantara reports show Madhuri is now deeply bonded to another elephant, sought her company and that they participated in activities together, attended joint hydrotherapy sessions and communicated in rumbles and trumpets.

Please contact the Chief Minister and the Forest Minister of Maharashtra to urge them to take steps to send Madhuri back to the Vantara sanctuary.

Send polite comments to:

Shri Devendra Fadnavis

Chief Minister of Maharashtra

[email protected]

Shri Ganesh Ramchandra Naik

Maharashtra Forest Minister

[email protected]

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