About IFAW

Founded in 1969, IFAW is an international animal welfare and conservation organization that works to protect wild and domestic animals and to broker solutions that benefit both animals and people. With offices in 15 countries around the world, IFAW works to protect whales, elephants, great apes, big cats, dogs and cats, seals, and other animals. To learn how to help IFAW protect animals, please visit www.ifaw.org.

PRAYAS Team Environment is one of the thousands of Emergency Response (ER) teams of IFAW attending to the animal emergencies of Surat, South Gujarat.

The mission of WTI is to conserve nature, especially endangered species and threatened habitats, in partnership with communities and governments. www.wildlifetrustofindia.org.

PRAYAS Team Environment is the member of nationwide Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Exchange Network (WREN) engaged in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.

We are working in tandem with the Surat Fire Brigade to rescue endangered species of birds, reptiles as well as domestic birds in distress in Surat. All the bird, animal and Reptile distress calls are handled by PRAYAS, and we are helped by the Fire department with equal enthusiasm.

Gujarat Forest Department Surat Circle helps us in all wildlife emergencies and rescues and other environmental issues and programs in Surat as well as South Gujarat. We work to support to the office the Conservator of Forests (CF Surat) and the Dangs in cases of wildlife rescue and also in Nature Education and Environment Protection projects.