Manoj Gautam/Animal Welfare Network Nepal

End animal sacrifice at Nepal's Gadhimai festival

Every five years, the world’s largest animal sacrifice takes place at the Gadhimai Temple in Nepal, and it’s scheduled to begin December 8. Here, after days without food and water, and a grueling experience of transport, water buffaloes, goats, chickens, pigs, pigeons, ducks and rats are decapitated with blunt metal tools.

In years past, we worked closely with the Temple Trust, and local religious and spiritual leaders after which the Temple Trust pledged an animal sacrifice ban, but in 2019 when the sacrifice of thousands of animals began, the Temple fell silent and refused to act despite the Supreme Court of Nepal and several government ministries speaking out in favor of ending the slaughter.

Help us call for an end to the blood sacrifice at Gadhimai. Pressure is needed NOW to urge the government of Nepal to ban this cruelty before the next festival in December.

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To the Government of Nepal,  

I’m appalled at the mass animal suffering and killing at Nepal’s Gadhimai festival, where tens of thousands of animals are beheaded in a gruesome sacrifice.  

Humane Society International’s campaigners in India and our partners in Nepal have documented the cruelty firsthand, including witnessing the killing of buffalo, goats and other animals routinely and illegally transported across the India border. Animal welfare and religious groups in Nepal and globally are united in their condemnation of this mass killing. Nepal’s own Supreme Court has issued a call to end the killing, and we are grateful that several of Nepal’s government ministries have also spoken out against it. We implore you to intervene by introducing a ban on animal sacrifice at Gadhimai and all animal sacrifices across Nepal.

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