A team of protected area managers and community leaders from Nepal visited Kaziranga and Manas Landscape in Assam from February 4 to 9 as part of an exposure trip to experience best practices related to protected area management (species and habitat), community-livelihood work and human-wild
Odisha Forest Minister Pradeep Amat launched fourteen of these off-road camper vans on Friday, which is also the 64th Foundation Day of Nandankanan Zoological Park. These cars will be stationed in Similipal beginning on December 30.
Two one and a half-year-old Siberian tigers named Lara and Akamas were brought to the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park from Pefos Zoo in Cyprus in exchange for the two red pandas from the Zoo.
A tragic incident occurred in Zoo Park on Monday morning when an employee of the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam, who was cleaning the enclosure of a bear, was attacked by the animal and died.
The Director of the National Zoological Park, Akanksha Mahajan, said, "We are doing water sprinkling on a regular basis. The thick layer of haze does not come down to ground level keeping the animal enclosures clean due to the sprinkling of water. We are using jet sprays for sprinkling".
A five-month-old female cub of a white lioness named 'Meera' died after suffering from illness at Gandhi Zoological Park in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district on Wednesday, an official said.
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav on Sunday led the cleanliness drive under the Swachchta Hi Seva campaign of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change at National Zoological Park (NZP) in the national capital.
Forest officials caught another leopard on Wednesday morning in Andhra Pradesh's Tirumala near the Narasimha Swamy temple taking the count to six, said officials.
"The animals brought to Nandankanan Zoo from Aizawl Zoo included - one pair of Hoolock Gibbon (a 4-year-old-male and a 13-year-old-female), one pair of Pig Tailed Macaque (7-year-old male and female) and one Himalayan Black Bear (11-year-old-female)," said authorities at Nandankanan Zoo.
The snow leopard, Zima, at the age of 13 years and three months, became the oldest snow leopard to have given birth in the last three decades of the snow leopard conservation breeding programme at Darjeeling Zoo, said authorities.
A new species of armoured reptile that lived close to the time of the emergence of dinosaurs has been described by researchers. The study was published in the journal, the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.