Vantara

And this is one of those times.

But we got to talk about Vantara again.

And for those in other parts of the world, Vantara is Bantara, B-A-N-T-A-R-A in some countries.

I'm not sure...

I honestly haven't done the research to figure out why it's Vantara here and in other at least some other English speaking countries and Vantara in others.

But it's the same place.

And so we talked about them last week and how there have been all these investigations into them and things are kind of challenging, but they've dodged all the bullets.

Well, the investigations keep piling up.

Uh, Ventura?

Vantara.

Vantara.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and it's, it's run and operated and funded by a very wealthy family.

You go there to be entertained by an animal, to see an animal on display.

Right.

At Vantara, every single enclosure, every single animal, every single ev- anything is designed with the animals' welfare in mind.

You should be in

Vantara.

Oh.

Right, we know that.

There

is nothing...

This is the story of our Vantara days.

She's making enemies left and right.

And then moving on from births and deaths, we do get to the rest of our Zunu section.

So I recently shared a little bit about an organization called Vantara.

It's a wildlife rescue and conservation project in India that is funded by a billionaire called Um, this came up back when we were discussing plumes, the guy who plays music for animals on his pink guitar.

Vantara is the place he went in with a tiger free contact and played for it.

And when discussing this, I mentioned that Vantara has been accused of a lot of inappropriate things with animals from inappropriately obtaining them to inappropriately handling them, but that they have been cleared in every investigation into them.

And, well, there's another investigation happening right now.

Recently, three ring-tailed lemurs were stolen from Ghazapur Safari Park in Bangladesh.

And an investigation into the disappearance by the Criminal Investigation Department of Bangladesh determined that the animals were passed through several intermediaries before being sold into the illegal wildlife trade in India.

And right now, there's a zoo in India that's trying to capture all of them and send them to the zoo in India.

Vantara? Vantara, yeah, this incredible zoo in India that is owned by a multi-multi-billionaire.

One of the richest families in India has this incredible menagerie.

But they're trying to rescue the Pablo Escobar hippos.