I would like to share refreshing news to all Eco-lovers. Animal Right activist tighten your seat belts.

Mass animal sacrifice has been banned on ?Gadhimai Festival? thanks to temple trustee for their compassion.

I couldn't stop myself leaping from this joyous moment when i heard this news. Its a victory of all animal lovers, true devotees( whom god never ask for scarification of their own creation) and Humanity.

Gadhimai festival, held every five years since the last three centuries, is the world?s biggest animal sacrifice event held at Bariyarpur VDC in Bara district. Thousands of animals are sacrificed enmasses as part of ritual meant to please the deity, Gadhimai.

Gadhimai festival has been always on the front cover pages and all over SNS of animal right activists and general animal lovers owing to its ?Mass Animal Sacrifice?. Pool of blood, death body and yelling of buffaloes, goats, wings-clipped pigeon were the common scenario of the festive which never looked like any kind of rituals.

Thanks to tremendous pressure from all side, human right activist, animal right activist, civic society and I/NGOS, now temple have vowed not to slaughter any animals in the name of rituals.

It was estimated that the festival in 2009 saw the massacre of 500,000 water buffalo, goats chickens and other animals, who had their heads severed as part of the ritual. Campaigns from groups such as HSI and AWNN, coupled with a growing awareness of the event, meant that numbers were reduced by about 70% in 2014. (as stated in Huffington Post)

Gauri Maulekhi, HSI/India consultant & Trustee, People for Animals, who petitioned India?s Supreme Court against the movement of animals from India to the Gadhimai festival, said, ?This is a tremendous victory for compassion that will save the lives of countless animals. HSI/India was heartbroken to witness the bloodshed at Gadhimai, and we've worked hard to help secure this ban on future sacrifice. We commend the temple committee but acknowledge that a huge task lies ahead of us in educating the public so that they are fully aware. HSI/India & People for Animals will now spend the next three and a half years until the next Gadhimai educating devotees in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal on the Temple Trusts? decision not to sacrifice animals. Animal sacrifice is a highly regressive practice and no nation in the modern world should entertain it.?

Organisers of the festival said that the time had come to ?transform an old tradition? and that Gadhimai 2019 will instead celebrate life. Ram Chandra Shah, chairman of the Gadhimai Temple Trust, said in a statement on Tuesday: For generations, pilgrims have sacrificed animals to the Goddess Gadhimai, in the hope of a better life. For every life taken, our heart is heavy. The time has come to transform an old tradition. The time has come to replace killing and violence with peaceful worship and celebration. Our concern has been this: how do we convince the people, so desperate for the favour of Gadhimai, that there is another way? How do we bring them on our journey? Thankfully, the dedicated efforts of the Animal Welfare Network Nepal and Humane Society International has shown us the path and provided the motivation to make this transformation a reality.?