Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Kanhaiya Kumar Vs Central Zoo Authority & Others dated 16/08/2022. The petitioner prays that in the interest of the public and the wildlife and animals, Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (respondent 2) should be banned from acquiring animals …
Chhat (Banur), January 3 Thousands of migratory birds have flocked the lake at Chhabtir zoo this winter much to the pleasure of bird watchers and nature lovers. Field director Tushar Kanti Behera at the Chhatbir zoo said the lake had become the winter home for migratory birds that had taken …
A sub-committee of heritage conservation architects and environmental experts will decide on the fate of the long-pending Rs 443-crore Byculla Zoo modernisation plan. The sub-committee will be headed by heritage panel member Cyrus Guzder. Vikas Dilawari and Sabyasachi Mukherji, director, Prince of Wales Museum, will be members of the committee. …
Mumbai: Although the forest department served the notices to Maharogi Seva Samiti for illegally keeping wild animals at Somnath and Anandvan, the department itself has been using the facility currently. The Samiti, founded by renowned social worker late Baba Amte, has been served the notices as per the directives of …
Mumbai Even as the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) issued a notification to zoos and forest departments to transfer captive elephants to sanctuaries or animal reserves, Mumbai
Ranchi, Dec. 20: Exotic birds will soon find enough space to stretch their wings at the upcoming aviary at Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park. The aviary, to measure 300ftx150ft, is located next to the old bird house at the zoo, 23km from the capital. It will have artificial nests, a water …
This Studbook is a part of the Central Zoo Authority, New Delhi, assignment to the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, for the compilation and publication of studbooks of selected endangered species of wild animals in Indian zoos. The present studbook compiles and analyses data for the Indian zoos.
With three species of vultures nearing extinction in India, a conservation programme to breed the natural scavengers in captivity has been taken up at the Rajabhatkhawa centre in North Bengal.
LUCKNOW: Sumit and Jaimala, the jumbo pair at the Lucknow zoo will soon be leaving it. The Central Zoo Authority's circular conveying its latest instructions on elephants "being called back" from zoos reached Lucknow on Thursday. When will Sumit and Jaimala leave has to be worked out by the chief …
R Ayyappan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Elephants will no longer be showcased in zoo collections across the country. All captive elephants currently lodged in zoos will be shifted with immediate effect to national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and tiger reserves for departmental use. An order to this effect has been sent by the Central …
Hyderabad, Nov. 17: Hyderabadis will miss the elephants in the Nehru Zoological Park as wildlife officials have decided to shift them out to the elephant camp in Chittoor. The Central Zoo Authority member secretary, Dr Rajesh Gopal, has issued orders to the state chief wildlife warden, Mr Hitesh Malhotra, to …
MUMBAI: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has announced that it will give the 2009 Proggy Award for International Leadership in the Field of Animal Rights to India's Central Zoo Authority (CZA) in recognition of the government organisation's decision to ban the use of elephants in zoos …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Despite getting four zoobred lions from Hyderabad, Delhi and Bhopal, the Madhya Pradesh (MP) will once again push for getting wild Asiatic lions from Gir sanctuary. Conservator of forest, Gwalior Murli Krishnan said he was in New Delhi on Monday to submit a report raising …
The wild cats will be imported from zoos in Hyderabad, Bhopal and Delhi Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: It is official now. After Gujarat snubbed Madhya Pradesh
Pooja Bhatt & Krishna Vyas Ahmedabad: When Ashok and Rupa delivered a calf some two years ago, there was celebration at the Kamala Nehru Zoological Garden at Kankaria. Never had the zoo seen so many visitors, many of them kids, willing to be photographed with the baby elephant, one of …
Mumbai The Central Zoo Authority on Thursday said it has issued notices to zoos and state wildlife departments across India to relocate captive elephants to sanctuaries, camps or animal reserves. However, the state wildlife warden and Mumbai zoo officials have said they are still awaiting the notice.
New Delhi: The city zoo will soon be bidding farewell to its three elephants. In fact, elephants will no longer be seen in any zoo or circus in the country after the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) issued a notice on Monday to the effect that all of these animals in …
The elephants are enjoying oil massages, tigers are getting beef for lunch and the hippos are being fed mahua. Animals at Birsa Munda Zoological Park, about 22km from the state capital, are getting the royal treatment this year to shield them cope with the cold.
