Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav on Saturday reiterated the concerns of the questions and privatization raised by Congress leader Jeram Ramesh about the Delhi Zoo and the Center-run establishment and an agreement proposed between Reliance-Nines Greens Zoological, Rescue and Rehabilitation Center (GZRRC).
In a post on the social media platform X, Yadav said that the National Zoological Park (NZP), which is run by the Center, signed a memorandum (MOU) with GZRC located in Jamnagar, Gujarat in January 2021, and NZP has sought to modify the current MO. He said that NZP has signed MUS with various organizations working in wildlife management in the past as part of its modernization drive and will continue to do so.
Responding to Ramesh’s post, Yadav said, “Some people have made a habit of creating doubts in the mind of every example.” On June 4, Ramesh said that while the government “claims that it is not a management transfer, its previous record does not motivate confidence. Is this the first step towards handing over the zoo to a private enterprise?”
Yadav said that between NZP and GZRRC, 2021 mOU focused on animal exchange, capacity building, animal keepers, technical exchange on animal scientific management and sharing knowledge on conservation reproduction and conservation breeding and education.
“To make cooperation in accordance with the general objectives of the prisoners wildlife management and to comprehend cooperation according to the current management requirements, NZP demanded amending the existing MoU with the GZRRC. The proposed MoU aims to promote wildlife protection, defense, rehabilitation, animal health, and cooperation in welfare,” said that “said.
Major areas of collaboration, he said, included veterinary care, attachment design, enrichment, staff training, knowledge-sharing initiative and support for potential animal exchange.
Yadav said in his post that GZRRC has developed state -of -the -art facilities and services in animal health and welfare, world class zoo designing, rehabilitation and rehabilitation of wild animals, and habitat. NZP, he said, being a 60 -year -old institution, has gained adequate expertise in breeding and care of many endangered species and aims to modernize its facilities and services by adopting the best practices in animal welfare in captivity, as well as enhancing visual experience on the summit with a world -class zoo.
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The Central Zoo Authority approved the GZRCC in February 2019, and was given an initial recognition in August 2020. According to its latest available annual report, GZRRC is home to 10,360 animals of 345 species. Most animals placed in the GZRC are part of their initiative to protect the animals captive from the state of virgin in the nature of the zoos, which to reduce the features in the nature of the zoo and provide welfare to the animals that were placed in sub-most circumstances, “the annual report states.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited and inaugurated rescue facility in Jamnagar on March 4 this year.
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