By IANS
Ranchi : From October, you will be able adopt an animal in the Birsa Zoological Park here. The authorities are going to start an animal adoption programme to improve awareness about wildlife conservation.
The adoption programme will be open to individuals, companies and civil groups. The ‘parent’ will be given a special lesson on animal behaviour, and their names will be up on a board at the zoo.
The programme will begin next month. “We are going to introduce the animal adoption programme to create awareness about wild animals,” said Priyesh Kumar, director of Birsa Zoological Park.
Kumar said similar programmes were also initiated in Mysore and Lucknow earlier.
If it works, there will be a second phase, where the state forest department will offer for adoption animals from one of the two national parks in Jharkhand – Betla and Hazaribagh.
Birsa zoo houses 178 wild animals, including elephants, tigers, lions and deer. It also has 23 bird species and seven reptile species.