Minister inaugurates `1.33 cr aviary at NZP
The forest department will take up the issue of encroachments around Mir Alam tank, which borders the Nehru Zoological Park, with the GHMC, forests minister A. Indrakaran Reddy said on Thursday. The minister said that the encroachments were contributing to the water from the tank flooding the zoo, especially when it rains. The GHMC will be asked to take action on the encroachments, he said.
Indrakaran Reddy was speaking after inaugurating `1.33crore aviary at the zoo for macaws, other parrot species, and other birds at the zoo. He also dedicated a 250-CCTV camera network that now covers the zoo and will allow the staff to monitor activities across the 380-acre property. In phase II of the zoo’s camera network project, another
250 CCTV cameras will be added, he said.
Visitors will be able to see many species of birds, including some that are uncommon, as well as crowd favourites like the large macaws, in the aviary spread over 17,468 square feet.
The aviary has 36 glass-fronted enclosures
A dhole, or the Indian wild dog, one of the four released into a special enclosure of their own at the Nehru Zoological
Park. — DC weeks before with shrubs, flowering releasing them into plants, tall grasses, their enclosure on water pools and Thursday. baths, perches, swings, Amidst the slew of and nesting boxes to inaugurations on give the enclosures a Thursday at the zoo, the natural appearance. minister also
The aviary will house announced that the
680 birds belonging to Nehru Zoological Park
60 species from Asia, became the first zoo in Australia, Africa and the country to receive South America. the ISO 14001 certification.
In addition, the minister Principal Chief released four Conservator of Forests dholes, or Indian wild R. Shobha said that the dogs, into a specially city zoo was also the designed enclosure. first in the country in The zoo quarantined the past to receive the the wild dogs for four ISO 9001 certification.