Bengaluru NGO helps replenish water sources inside Turahalli forest

The PfA Wildlife Hospital, a non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting and rehabilitating municipality wildlife, has been moving Operation Quench Thirst to guarantee regular replenishment of h2o sources wrong Turahalli wood successful Bengaluru.

The NGO said that each summer, spotted cervid are among the astir commonly rescued animals on the edges of Turahalli forest, often recovered injured aft encountering dangers that originate erstwhile they stray retired of wood zones, including roadworthy accidents.

“In 2025 alone, PfA rescued galore spotted cervid nether specified circumstances,” it said,

It added that deer, peafowl, aureate jackals, babblers and mynas are often rescued adjacent wood boundaries during highest summer, highlighting the increasing accent connected wildlife owed to drying h2o sources.

“When h2o sources wrong forests adust up, animals are forced to determination retired successful hunt of water. That’s erstwhile we spot an summation successful injuries, conflict, and distress — astir of which are preventable,” said Colonel. Dr. Navaz Shariff, Chief Wildlife Veterinarian, PfA Wildlife Hospital.

It added that the Operation Quench Thirst inaugural focuses connected replenishing captious h2o sources wrong Turahalli Forest done regular h2o tanker deployments and installation of h2o troughs, which person been strategically installed crossed Turahalli and KB kaval wood ranges, portion besides refilling and sustaining existing earthy h2o sources wrong the wood ecosystem.

The inaugural is carried retired successful collaboration with the Karnataka Forest Department and with enactment from the citizens of Bengaluru.

“Providing h2o wrong the wood is 1 of the simplest and astir effectual ways to support wildlife and trim struggle with humans,” Dr. Shariff said.

The wood supports a affluent diverseness of taxon including leopards, spotted deer, chaotic boars, aureate jackals, mongooses, hares and peafowl, on with birds specified arsenic owls, barbets, cuckoos, babblers and white-rumped shama, and respective snake species.

PfA added that it continues to person aggregate rescue calls regular for dehydrated animals and birds, further underlining the urgent request for sustained h2o enactment some wrong forests and crossed municipality spaces.