When you go for a holiday to a foreign land, do you visit Zoo? Do you like to see different animals that you don’t see in your home town?
Would you like to see giraffe, antelope, zebra, ostrich, cheetah, African elephant, hippo, flamingo from African Zone or emu, wallaby, kangaroo, black swan, sugar glider, lorikeet from Australian zone or Orangutan, leopard, gibbon, otter, pythons, cobra, birds, insects from South Asian Zone?
Mumbai city plans to set up a zoo of international standards with animals from all over world. But do you think that these animals will be happy here? Away from their familiar environment, won’t they miss their natural habitat? Won’t they get traumatized?
Presently, Mumbai zoo is in very poor condition. Animals are not healthy and live in unclean environment. But BMC plans to revamp the zoo in five phases
In phase one, there will be construction of administrative building, an education centre, a zoo hospital, a quarantine area, a parameter wall, fences and a service road.
In phase two, there will be construction of an entrance plaza, children’s exploratory centre, underground parking lot, playground area and a Cheetah restaurant
In phase three, there will be construction of zoo exhibits, construction of enclosures for Africa, Australia and South-East Asia exhibits, construct cages for Indian exhibits and construct staff houses
In phase four it will look into supplies
And finally in phase five there will be shipping of new animals
Howwzat? Looking forward to seeing a new zoo in Mumbai?
Source: http://epaper.timesofindia.com/
