Darjeeling Goodwill Animal Shelter Trust (DGAST)

Darjeeling Animal Shelter is a project of Darjeeling Goodwill Animal Shelter trust (DGAS). In 1995 Christine and Jeremy Townend founded Kalimpong Animal Shelter, which was built on the outskirts of the town. They were deeply distressed by the condition of the stray dogs in Kalimpong and Darjeeling, former British Hill Stations in the foothills of the Himalayas in West Bengal. There were no animal shelters, and dogs were travelling the streets in gangs, hungry, suffering from mange, with wounds inflicted by boiling water, or a blow from the kukuri (Nepalese knife), and with injuries from accidents. In both towns the dogs were being regularly poisoned with strychnine by the municipalities in the mistaken belief that this would control the spread of rabies.. However, after the local population of dogs was killed, remaining dogs rapidly multiplied to fill the empty biological niche and so the poisoning did not provide a permanent solution. The Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme which was functioning successfully at Help in Suffering Animal Shelter in Jaipur, was used as a model for both Kalimpong and Darjeeling Animal Shelters. The municipalities agreed to stop poisoning all dogs in both towns and the programmes began in 1995 at KAS and 2007 at Darjeeling Animal Shelter (DAS). The ABC programmes in both towns have proved enormously successful. Source: http://daslebong.wordpress.com/ This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience! Reach us at rupindang @ gmail . com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com