New Delhi: Delhi will get three lions for the purpose of breeding from Gujarat under an animal exchange program, officials said on Tuesday.
“The authority of the Central Zoo has approved a proposal to bring a lion and two female lions from Kevadia and Sakcharbaig in Gujarat,” said the Delhi Zoo Director Ramesh Pandey.
Instead, Delhi will give two Nile horses to the western state.
Another animal exchange with the Gorewada Zoo in Nagpur is in work.
As part of it, Delhi will get two tigers, Pandey said.
The capital will also receive a pair of sloth bears from Nagpur facilities.
Park Zoology Arignar Anna in Chennai is likely to provide male tigers to Delhi, the director said.
Tigress Bengal was taken from Kanpur because of the purpose of breeding in November last year.
The Delhi Zoo is a zoo that participates in the “conservation breeding program” from Bengal Tiger.
According to the Central Zoo Authority, the conservation breeding program is a science to preserve species by preventing the collapse of the population that will occur soon because of a large number of eliminative pressures such as habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, trade, illegal hunting, illegal trade, and climate change.
At present, the Delhi Zoo has five white tigers – three men and two women, each pair of tigers and lions Bengal.
The seven-year-old lion died in May turned out to be a prolonged disease.
Also, five species, including star turtles, dhole (wild dogs) and iguana will be taken from the Visakhapatnam zoo, Pandey said.
Delhi has an ostrich from the Chhatbir Zoo in Chandigarh about four months ago.
There is no animal exchange program that has been done since then because of Covid’s pandemic.
The Delhi Zoo will be reopened on August 1 after remaining closed since April 15 because of the surge in the Coronavirus case during the second wave.
According to Pandey, the zoo only recorded 124 animal deaths, the lowest in the last three years, when it was still closed to the public in 2020-21 due to the flu pandemic and Koronavirus bird flu.
There are 94 species and 1,162 animals at the current zoo.
“We move towards 100 species immediately,” he said.
Delhi to get three lions from Gujarat for breeding purposes
