During his visit, the Prime Minister played with and fed several animals, including Asiatic lion cubs, a white lion cub, a rare and endangered Clouded Leopard cub, and a Caracal cub, among others
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and visited Vantara in Gujarat, a vast wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and conservation centre that is home to over 150,000 rescued, endangered, and threatened animals from more than 2,000 species. During his tour, the Prime Minister visited various facilities at the centre, interacting with a variety of rehabilitated species.
He visited the wildlife hospital at Vantara, where he observed advanced veterinary facilities, including MRI and CT scan machines, ICUs, and specialized departments such as Wildlife Anesthesia, Cardiology, Nephrology, Endoscopy, Dentistry, and Internal Medicine.
During his visit, the Prime Minister played with and fed several animals, including Asiatic lion cubs, a white lion cub, a rare and endangered Clouded Leopard cub, and a Caracal cub, among others. The white lion cub he fed was born at the centre after its mother was rescued and brought to Vantara for care.
PM Modi also visited the MRI room, where he saw an Asiatic lion undergoing an MRI, and the operation theatre, where a leopard was undergoing life-saving surgery after being hit by a car. The leopard had been rescued from the highway. The rescued animals are housed in enclosures designed to closely replicate their natural habitats.
Interaction With Golden Tiger
PM Modi had several close encounters with wild animals, including face-to-face interactions with a Golden Tiger, four Snow Tigers (rescued from a circus), a white lion, and a snow leopard. He also patted an Okapi, met chimpanzees that were previously kept as pets, played with an orangutan rescued from an overcrowded facility, and fed a giraffe and a rhino calf—an orphaned one-horned rhino whose mother had passed away at the centre.
