Beauty Without Cruelty

BWC's achievements over the years

1998: Goat and sheep sacrifice stopped. BWC activists succeed in getting the residents of Udbur village in Mysore district of Karnataka, to forever forsake their practice of ritual animal sacrifice inside their temple during the Sankranti festival.

1998: Elephant show stopped. BWC points out the illegality of the 'Elephant Show' (a circus within a sanctuary) at Mudumalai. The Government orders it to be immediately stopped.

		1997: Dissection made optional in schools. The Delhi High Court rules, in response to petitions sponsored by BWC and other organisations, that school students have the right to choose whether or not to
dissect living creatures. Earlier, BWC had been one of the main organisations which successfully campaigned for the ban on dissection of frogs in Gujarat.

1996: Camel joy-rides banned. BWC, together with other organisations, obtains court orders banning the entry of camels into Mumbai. This landmark victory entails a massive operation of rescuing and successfully rehabilitating in Rajasthan.
the existing camels used for joy-rides on the beaches.

1994: Film censored. BWC convinces the Central Board of Film Certification to censor certain parts of the film Betaaj Badshah in which the mouth of a leopard had bee stitched for its performance.

1991:Wildlife items destroyed by the Government. BWC organises, in collaboration with the Chief Wildlife Warden, Delhi, by the Government of India, a 'bonfire' of seized wildlife items worth Rs.7,000,000/-
with the goal of preventing them form being put back into circulation and in demand.

		1991/2000: Use of lions, tigers, panthers, bears, and monkeys in circuses banned by notification from Union Ministry of Environment & Forests based upon report prepared by BWC on
circuses in India. Delhi and Kerala High Courts uphold notification challenged by Indian Circus Federation.

1991: The Wildlife (Protection) Act,1972, amended to incorporated almost all the suggestions given by BWC to the Ministry of Environment & Forests (Government of India) in the
new legislation entitled the Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act, 1991.

		1989: Piglet-mutilation custom stopped in Terekol, Goa. BWC persuades the Catholic Church to stop the age-old barbaric custom of teenage boy biting a
piglet to death at Terekol, Goa in celebration of St John's Baptism.

1988: Karakul Lamb Project scrapped by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in response to BWC's pleas, made for 13 long years. Karakul lambs from the former USSR were being bred to be
slaughtered within 48 hours of their birth for the newborn's tightly wound and highly priced pelts.

1988: Use of live hare banned by the Government for the 'sport' of Greyhound Coursing in Punjab, in which specially trained greyhounds chase, catch, and tear apart live hare for the entertainment of spectators.

1987: Export of frog's legs�a delicacy abroad�banned by the Government of India after a decade of persistent representation by BWC. Frogs' hind legs were being chopped off in a barbaric manner; the decline in frogs' numbers created a
near-retributive ecological imbalance.

		1984: Import of Animal Rennet for making cheese banned by the Government of India after seven long years of persuasion by BWC, saving countless calves abroad from death (animal rennet is extracted
from the stomach of unweaned calves specially slaughtered for the purpose).

1977: Export of monkeys banned by the Government of India on BWC's persuasion. Monkeys are routinely subjected to intense cruelty in research laboratories abroad.