Central Zoo Authority member secretary visits Nagaland Zoological Park, breeding centre

Dimapur, Nov. 14 (EMN): Member Secretary, Central Zoo Authority (CZA) of India, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Shukla, was on a three-day visit to Nagaland from November 10 to 12^th.

During his visit, he undertook inspection of the Nagaland Zoological Park (NZP), Dimapur, a medium zoo recognised by CZA, and reviewed the upkeep of animals, ongoing conservation breeding programmes and rescue activities taken up by the zoo, an update informed.

Shukla appreciated the conservation breeding programme of the Asian brown tortoise at NZP, it stated.

Consequent to a meeting with the PCCF& HOFF, Nagaland, and other senior officers from the department, Shukla also visited the State Botanical Garden and Blyth’s Tragopan Conservation Breeding Centre in Kohima. 

The member secretary provided inputs on improvement of enclosures and upkeep of animals in the zoo, and recommended ways to effectively advance the conservation breeding programmes in the future.

He appreciated the initiatives taken by the department in conservation of endangered species and assured continued guidance and technical support from the Central Zoo Authority for the development of the Conservation Breeding Centre, it stated.