I am Pradeep Nair, born and brought up in Telangana. I moved to Hyderabad in 2005 after my B.Tech. I worked as a freelance web developer and also as a Senior UI developer. Being an animal lover since childhood, I always feel excited being around animals. I used to save animals whenever they are in need. When i moved to Hyderabad, I came to know about the existence of organizations working towards animal welfare. I volunteered myself in those NGOs and learnt much about handling animals in distress. I became an active animal rescuer since then. This experience helped me a lot in learning the techniques of animal rescue. I was more involved into tactical rescues such as when a dog fell in a well, or a bird got stuck in manja on a tree, or a kitten fell into 70ft borewell and I fine tuned my skills needed for tactical rescues. After so many years I see very less people volunteering with NGOs on field. I felt there is a need to expand the army of rescuers. In 2015, I started "Animal Warriors India" with an agenda of training more and more youngsters to become true animal activists. Often I see people who love animals but don't know how to help them in right way. We formed a team of around 18 well trained rescuers who now volunteer with all the NGOs of Hyderabad to save more animals. We brought up a new system called pocket shelters where an injured animal is rehabilitated at someone's house, easing resources of an NGO. By this more people started involving in animal activism and helping NGOs by giving space to injured animals.

In the last 14 years, I have rescued more than 70000 animals like dogs, cats, buffaloes, snakes, birds etc. Me and my team were also involved in the animal rescue efforts during Kerala floods and cyclones in Andhra. We managed to rescue 327 animals in 10 days of rescue efforts during Kerala floods. I also fostered more than 40 disabled animals in these years.

With an experience over 14 years we have saved more than 70,000 animals from distress situations. Annually we rescue around 1000 animals including stray animals and wildlife. We focused on saving animals in more tactical way in situations like borewell or manja rescues. With a high rise in such rescues our equipment are used at their maximum limit. It is becoming danger to us to continue the work with our equipment. We need better safety equipment to deal such kind of rescues to ensure safety of animals and rescuers. For rescuing injured animals, we are dependent on hiring private vehicles to shift injured animals, which we are not able to afford regularly. If it is a large animal then it is costing us around 3000INR per rescue. And its becoming hard to find vehicles due to lockdown restrictions. We need to buy a rescue vehicle to shift injured animals to shelter.

Rescue equipment needed for three teams:1. Climbing Ropes
2. Safety Helments
3. Safety Harness
4. Rucksack
5. Head Torches
6. Hand Torches
7. Climbing Shoes
8. Inspection Camera
9. Action Camera to check animal condition in deep wells before rescue
10. Animal Handling Crates
11. Gloves
12. Animal Lifting Bag / Sheet
13. Reach Pole
14. Dog Catching nets
15. Net throwing Gun
16. Body Floaters
17. Inflatable Boat
18. Walkie Talkies

Vehicle Requirements:
1. Minimum 4 members capacity
2. 4-wheel-drive to rescue animals from floods
3. Animal Carrying space.
4. Hydraulic animal lifter.
5. Space to carry food and relief equipment.

We need your help:

• We are feeding 1000+ stray animals in remote areas, your donation will be used to feed these animals
• We save many animals which are stuck in wrong places likes wells, trees or buildings. Years of use has worn out our rescue equipment. We need better ropes and equipment to save them easily.
• Animal rescue vehicle to rescue hundreds of animals in remote areas and do animal rescue operations during disasters