Act Now to Help Elephant Madhuri Remain at Her Sanctuary Home in India

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Through an application to a Supreme Court High Powered Committee by Nandini Math, a temple in Maharashtra state—the temple is seeking permission to rip severely arthritic and psychologically disturbed elephant Madhuri (also known as Mahadevi) from Vantara’s Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust (RKTEWT) rehabilitation facility to imprison her back in the same bleak shed where she lived alone for 33 years. PETA India has submitted strong objections to the HPC. She needs your help to stay at her sanctuary home.

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, and she killed the chief priest in frustration. 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, seeks her company and that they participate in activities together, attend joint hydrotherapy sessions and communicate in rumbles and trumpets.

Please join us in urging both the Chief Minister and the Forest Minister of Maharashtra to protect Madhuri by ensuring that she remains at the sanctuary.

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Shri

Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra

Shri Ganesh

Subhadra Ramchandra Naik

Maharashtra

Message to {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName}:

Elephant Madhuri—also known as Mahadevi—was rescued nearly a year ago after three decades of suffering. She has severe arthritis, foot rot, multiple fractures, and psychological trauma. At Vantara, she has finally found peace—and a friend.

Now, the Nandini Math, from where she was seized, has applied to return her to the same shed at the temple that drove her to kill the chief priest in frustration. This would take her away from veterinary care, remove her from elephant companionship, and return her to the very conditions that caused her suffering, effectively undoing the very intervention that Indian courts and experts had deemed necessary for her physical and psychological wellbeing.

PETA India has offered a mechanical elephant to the temple for rituals, just as the Jain Thousand Pillars Temple in Karnataka uses. Mechanical elephants have been recommended by the governments of Karnataka and Telangana for use in temples or processions. Maharashtra, too, can follow this compassionate and progressive path.

Please protect Madhuri by ensuring that she is kept permanently retired at Vantara. The temple can continue its rituals using a mechanical elephant in alignment with Jainism.

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sincerely,
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