A visiting journalist toured Vantara, the world's largest wildlife sanctuary and conservation centre, owned by the Ambani family in Gujarat, India, which has rescued around 150,000 endangered animals from 2,000 species across 44 countries. The centre, set on 4,500 acres with 22 hospitals and 5,000 staff, takes in animals suffering appalling conditions, from private collections, circuses, bushmeat markets and war zones, and is now entering a ten-year research partnership with London's Natural History Museum expected to advance understanding of wildlife health and genetics significantly.

Among the cases witnessed were Dorcas, a cheetah flown in from a defunded South African sanctuary and treated for a shattered leg, and Pancham, a Bengal tiger that killed eight villagers in India but was spared retribution since killing tigers is illegal there. Vantara receives at least 100 requests for help daily and runs a "war room" to coordinate disaster response for animals worldwide. It also holds the world's largest animal biobank, with a million samples from over 1,000 species, including 260 rescued Asian elephants, being studied for insights into disease resistance and treatments such as snakebite venom, which kills 140,000 people globally each year.