People for Animals


People for Animals, also known as People for Animals India, is India's largest animal welfare organization. Maneka Gandhi, who started the organization in 1992, is its current chairperson.
People for Animals regularly works with various other animals welfare and rights organizations such as Humane Society International and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. An example of this combined liaising would be the successful ten year long campaign to ban seal fur and skin in India which was passed in April 2018.
On 5th June 2020, following a tweet by Maneka Gandhi condemning the death of a pregnant Elephant which was wrongly attributed to Malappuram district in Kerala, the official website was hacked and displayed a message calling out an attempt to spread communal hatred and bigotry by a group identified as "Kerala Cyber Warriors"

Organization structure

Trustees

Trustees include M.C Mehta, Raj Punjwani, Pritish Nandy, Manu Parekh, Ambika Shukla and Gauri Maulekhi.

Units

People for Animals has over 100 regional units in India.