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National Zoological Park Delhi
The National Zoological Park (originally Delhi Zoo) is a 176-acre (71 ha) zoo near the Old Fort in Delhi, India. A 16th-century citadel, a sprawling green island and a motley collection of animals and birds, all in the middle of a burgeoning urban Delhi. The zoo is home to about 1350 animals representing almost 130 species of animals and birds from around the world. Currently, the director of the zoo is Shri Amitabh Agnihotri, IFS. The zoo can be seen on foot or using a battery-operated vehicle which can be rented at the zoo. Visitors are not permitted to bring any food other than drinking water, but there is a canteen in the zoo. In 2014 a visitor was killed as he had fallen into the white tigers enclosure, leading to questions about visitor and animal safety at the zoo.
History
The Delhi zoo came decades later after New Delhi was built. although the idea to have a zoo at the national capital was mooted in 1951, the park was inaugurated in November 1959.
In 1952 the Indian Board for Wildlife created a committee to look into creating a zoo for Delhi. The government of India was to develop the zoo and then turn it over to Delhi as a working enterprise. In 1953 the committee approved the location of the zoo, and in October 1955 it assigned N. D. Bachkheti of the Indian Forest Service to oversee the creation of the zoo.
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Between You and Me
Indian Express 14 Oct 2018
By the Book. The Age of AngerDown in Jungleland. Badass BadgerFamilies in Food. Cream of the Crop ... But the sight of a partially-eaten dead calf in front of the gate stops him in his tracks. Bhiku Makwana, a driver who lives across the road, walks up to him ... The forest department has also sought help from Delhi Zoo and experts from Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Bareilly, and Safari Park, Etawah in Uttar Pradesh ... Must Watch ... ....
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Hurt pride: How a disease and administrative apathy have imperilled Gir’s lions
The Hindu
12 Oct 2018
But today there is a frenzy of activity — officials from the forest department and vets from the Delhi Zoo and from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Bareilly have converged here to observe and test four wild lions for a deadly disease that is ravaging the park’s prides. Visitors are strictly barred, so I can only catch a fleeting glimpse of the felines from a distance, through a mesh. They look lethargic ... Just not prepared....
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129 tigers died in Uttarakhand in 18 years, claims wildlife expert in research paper
The Times of India 10 Oct 2018
The 77-year-old who has served in Delhi Zoo as well as Indian Veterinary Research Institute Bareilly says that his research revealed that around seven to eight tigers died in Uttarakhand every year since 2000, when the state was carved out from Uttar Pradesh even though state tiger mortality records show no tiger deaths in 2005....
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Rare White Tiger Mauls Zookeeper to Death in Enclosure
Newsweek 09 Oct 2018
A rare white tiger has mauled a zookeeper to death in his enclosure at a zoo in Japan ... on Monday when the zoo was closed for the day. The tiger, which is about six-feet-long and weighs about 370 pounds, had to be sedated by other zoo workers with a tranquilizer gun after the attack. The zoo forbids humans and tigers to be in the same space ... In 2014, a white tiger attacked and killed a man who leapt into the tiger enclosure at Delhi Zoo....
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Sivakarthikeyan adopts white tigress Anu
The Hindu
09 Oct 2018
He handed over a signed letter on Tuesday to zoo director S ... So, the public should come forward to adopt, at least one of the 174 species that are housed in the zoo,” Mr ... Among the white tiger population in the zoo, Anu was brought in from the New Delhi zoo in 2006 to Vandalur ... in the tiger quarter of the zoo.Adoption programme....
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Lion, dad to 26 cubs, dies at Hyderabad zoo
The Times of India 05 Oct 2018
... at Visakhapatnam, Rajkot Zoo at in Gujarat, Alipore Zoological Park at Kolkata, National Zoological Park at Delhi, Dvur Kralov Zoo in Czech Republic and other parks across the world,” a release said....
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Pride and seek
The Times of India 05 Oct 2018
A three-member team sent by Inspector General (IG) of Forests, New Delhi, visited Gir on September 22 and 23, but their report is yet to reach state forest officials ... Three teams with a total 10 experts from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareli, Delhi Zoo and Safari Park Etavah, UP visited Gir from September 30 to October 2....
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Gir lions: Report on deaths yet to reach officials
The Times of India 05 Oct 2018
A three-member team sent by Inspector General (IG) of Forests, New Delhi, visited Gir on September 22 and 23, but their report is yet to reach state forest officials ... Three teams with a total 10 experts from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareli, Delhi Zoo and Safari Park Etavah, UP visited Gir from September 30 to October 2....
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Male Asiatic lion dies in zoo
The Hindu
04 Oct 2018
... statement from the zoo informed. Atul was born in 1999 in the zoo, and sired 26 cubs which have been accommodated in the zoos of Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Alipore, Delhi, Czech Republic, among others....
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Hyderabad: 19-year-old male lion dies at Nehru Zoo
The Times of India 04 Oct 2018
... at Visakhapatnam, Rajkot Zoo at in Gujarat, Alipore Zoological Park at Kolkata, National Zoological Park at Delhi, Dvur Kralov Zoo in Czech Republic and other parks across the world,” a release said....
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Hyd: 19-year-old male lion dies at Nehru Zoo
The Times of India 04 Oct 2018
“Atul was born in the year 1999 at Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad has been an important part of the Zoo family and has sired 26 cubs which are presently accommodated in Indira Gandhi Zoological Park at Visakhapatnam, Rajkot Zoo at in Gujarat, Alipore Zoological Park at Kolkata, National Zoological Park at Delhi, Dvur Kralov Zoo in Czech Republic and other parks across the world,” a release said....
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For lion raksha, cows to be immunized in Gujarat
The Times of India 04 Oct 2018
GANDHINAGAR ... Rajiv Gupta, the additional chief secretary of the forest and environment department, said ... Four lions have been killed by CDV ... “The chief minister has directed us take help of experts from London, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi.” Lions have been killed by two strains of a virus, said Rajiv Gupta ... “We have called for teams from the Indian Veterinary Institute, Delhi Zoo, and a team of doctors from Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah ... ....
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Gujarat government now presses panic button to save lions
DNA India 04 Oct 2018
After declaring in fight as cause for death of Asiatic lions in the forest areas near Gir sanctuary and trashing reports of CDV infection to save face, the Gujarat government has now pressed panic button ... We are also seeking the help of experts of Royal Veterinary Society of London ... Five other experts from Indian Veterinary research institute, five from Delhi zoo and two from Itava zoo in UP have also come to rescue lions in Gujarat ... ....
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