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 …
Successful Scheme: Although the Mysore zoo started the animal adoption scheme in 2001, it is only now that it is seeing some results, with some big names such as BKS Iyengar adopting animals, notes Shyam Sundar Vattam When K T Cariyappa adopted an elephant at Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens of …
MUMBAI: The seven-year-old hippopotamus that died at the Byculla zoo last week may have consumed heavy metals either through water or fodder over a long period of time. Following this alarming finding, doctors at the Bombay Veterinary College (BVC) on Tuesday swung into action to conduct separate pathological tests of …
Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu. The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork …
Mumbai Following the post mortem report, pinning the death of Shakti, the five-year-old hippopotamus in the Byculla zoo, to renal failure and cardiac arrest, the doctors of the Bombay Veterinary College have said that there may be a need to analyse the water and fodder provided to animals in the …
Mumbai: Describing the condition of the civic body-run zoo in the city as pathetic, several animal rights groups have suggested that it be shut down. People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has appealed to the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) to close down the zoo in Byculla area, a tourist …
Mumbai Mumbai may not be short of vets to look after pets and livestock, but wildlife veterinarians are in short supply. With a zoo in the middle of a Rs 433-crore makeover plan, the city, which has the largest protected forest in the world within city limits, is in dire …
Mumbai: Following the death of Shakti, the five-year-old male hippopotamus, at Veermata Jijabai Udyan on April 24, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has demanded that the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) conduct an immediate inspection of the zoo and an inquiry into the death. Peta (India) chief functionary …
Alipurduar: Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary will send two sub-adult elephants to the Alipore Zoo in Calcutta in exchange for two adult ones. All the animals to be swapped are females and they will have different roles to play in their new habitats. While the sub-adults will be entertaining the visitors at …
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The death of a five-year-old hippopotamus at the Byculla zoo recently has agitated a key animal rights body which has threatened to move the Bombay High Court if the conditions in the cages did not improve. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said it is taking up the …
The WorldWide Funds for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P) has expressed its grave concerns over illegal import of White tigers and conversion of the green areas in Karachi into industrial areas. According to an official here on Thursday, a meeting of WWF-P Board was held on April 18 at the Qarshi Industries, Hattar. …
A Thai zoo hoping to tame its tigers is letting a sow suckle a pair of cubs, while a tigeress takes care of some of her piglets. The bizarre arrangement at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi is intended to accustom the prey and predators to one another, and make …
P.Oppili in safe hands: The rescued elephant calf at the Vandalur Zoo in Chennai on Friday. CHENNAI: A four-month-old male elephant calf, abandoned by an elephant herd, was rescued by Forest Department officials in Erode last week. The calf was brought to the Vandalur Zoo for rehabilitation on Friday. According …
Two turtles, rescued from a city market and gifted to the zoo by a teenager, have gone missing from their enclosure and the authorities have no clue how. Asish Chowdhury, who appeared for the ISC from La Martiniere for Boys this year, bought the turtles for Rs 70 from a …
Mumbai: Veermata Jeejabai Udyan, also identified as Byculla Zoo, is among city's oldest heritage precincts. Difference in opinions has now emerged on how it began life. Even as naturalists and environmentalists argue that it began life in 1861 as a 'botanical' garden with zoological specimens added later, the Brihanmumbai Municipal …
China will send five tigers as "friendship envoys" to North Korea, a provincial government website said on Thursday, even as reclusive Pyongyang declared it would restart a nuclear plant and expelled UN inspectors. The three Siberian tigers from the northeast city of Dalian and two Bengal tigers from Sichuan in …
Hyderabad, April 14: Experts in the Nehru Zoological Park have started a breeding programme for Mouse deer, an endangered species which is also known as Spotted Indian Chevrotain.
