PFA Uttarakhand has been at the fore front in various animal rights issues in Uttarakhand including raising awareness about the plight of animals during the 2013 floods in Uttarakhand where the PFA Uttarakhand team was the only animal organization to have set foot in the most devastated areas of the calamity including Rambara and Kedarnath . Pashubali ( animal sacrifice ) on large scale has been eradicated from various temples and fairs in the state under the initiative and persistence of PFA Uttarakhand , such as the Bhukhal Mela , where hundreds of buffaloes were slaughtered for religious purposes in a single day and left to rot . PFA Uttarakhand also deals with animal issues in the state such as battery cages , bird sellers , dog breeding and cruelty ; poaching , encroachment and mismanagement at Corbett Tiger Reserve and Rajaji National Park , emu farming , cow slaughter , circuses , elephants , deforestation , the monkey population , illegal meat shops , police training and farming of exotic animals such as Japanese Quail
2013 floods in Uttarakhand
2013 North India floods
People for Animals Uttarakhand