Cash-strapped Nagaland zoo urges people to adopt animals

 

The Nagaland Zoological Park (NZP) at Rangapahar near Dimapur has urged the state’s people to adopt all its 350 animals since it is facing an acute financial crunch to bear their expenses.

The zoo authorities said over the years, the awareness over wildlife conservation has increased among the common people of Nagaland. As a result, they are rescuing more and more animals and bringing them to the zoo, causing food and space crunch in the state’s only animal park.

In this first of its kind programme in North-east India, the NZP in inviting people to adopt the animals by paying for their annual feeding and maintenance expenditure for a specific period of time.