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 …
- Two-year programme to boost endangered four-horned antelope, Indian giant squirrel count In Numbers game: Indian giant squirrel and four-horned antelope Ranchi, July 15: Birsa Munda Zoological Park is all set to chip in to save endangered wildlife. The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has recently cleared its proposal to set …
Mumbai In a move that will hearten the city’s environmentalists, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will conduct an intensive biodiversity mapping of the Byculla Zoo to identify the varieties of trees and other flora on the premises, using GPS. The 53-acre Byculla zoo, which is in the middle of a …
Mumbai: It has become fashionable these days for the elite to adopt an animal of their choice from the zoo. To cash in on the fad, zoos across the country are introducing animal adoption schemes, and the zoo in Aurangabad is the latest to jump onto the bandwagon. In quick …
Esther David The first elephant which came to the Ahmedabad zoo in the 60s was Sumitra. Actually, she was a performing circus elephant, but had hurt her foot on a piece of iron scrap, while walking on the banks of river Sabarmati. She was sent to the zoo hospital, but, …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: What will be the fate of Ashok and Rupa? The stay of the elephants at Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden in Kankaria has come under a cloud of uncertainty following a dictum by Central Zoo Authority (CZA) that a zoo environment is not the best place …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: How about watching an anaconda live that too from a three to four metre distance? Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden at Kankaria will soon get a pair of anacondas
The century-old Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens in Mysore has taken a major initiative to conserve the tiger population in the wake of drastic reduction in their numbers. It has started efforts to pair tigers for captive breeding. Zoo authorities have paired nine-year-old Brahma with four-year-old Manya, a white tigress, to produce …
The ring-necked pheasant, an exotic bird, has become a major cause of headache for Kanpur zoo authorities. The zoo has bred such a large number of pheasants that they are being unable to handle pugnacious birds that keep fighting amongst themselves. The zoo director says that there are 78 pheasants …
On the one hand it was a major shot in the arm for the Kamala Nehru Zoo in Madhya Pradesh, with the hatching of 16 baby crocodiles of the endangered reptile species; on the other hand there were reports of
Mumbai: The BMC has decided to go ahead with its Byculla zoo modernisation plan despite a few objections raised by the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC). Turning down the BMC
Jamshedpur, May 31: The Tata Steel Zoological Park will now have to wait for another year to breeding ostriches as the first attempt of the zoo authorities failed this year. The pair of ostrich, both seven-year-old, brought from the Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, last year were successful in …
Chhatbir (Mohali) 8 eggs of a rare Chinese hen were reported missing following which T K Bahera had lodged a police complaint A Police complaint lodged by the field director of Chhatbir Zoological Park against three Class IV employees sparked a massive protest here on Wednesday. Around 150 employees, including …
Although the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) is just an advisory body whose recommendations can be disregarded by civic administrators, its approval of the Byculla Zoo makeover could be of paramount importance in the wake of conditions placed by the Central Zoo Authority (CZA). As per the BMC sources, one …
