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The National Zoological Park (originally Delhi Zoo) is a zoo in New Delhi, India. A 16th-century citadel, a sprawling green island and a motley collection of animals and birds, all in the middle of a burgeoning urban Delhi.
The zoo can be seen on foot or using a battery-operated vehicle which can be rented at the zoo. Visitors are not permitted to bring any food other than drinking water, but there is a canteen in the zoo. The zoo is closed on every Friday and national holidays.
The Delhi zoo came decades later after New Delhi was built. although the idea to have a zoo at the national capital was mooted in 1951, the park was inaugurated in November 1959.
In 1952 the Indian Board for Wildlife created a committee to look into creating a zoo for Delhi. The government of India was to develop the zoo and then turn it over to Delhi as a working enterprise. In 1953 the committee approved the location of the zoo, and in October 1955 it assigned N. D. Bachkheti of the Indian Forest Service to oversee the creation of the zoo.
Initially Major
The zoo is home to about 1350 animals representing almost 130 species of animals and birds from around the world.
File:National Zoological Park Delhi 091.jpg, Blackbuck
File:NZP Delhi1.jpg, Leopard
File:Royal Bengal Tiger at New Delhi.jpg, Royal Bengal tiger
Image:Indian Rhinoceros in National Zoological Park Delhi.jpg, Indian rhinoceros
File:Gaur in New Delhi Zoo.jpg, Gaur
File:Hippo in new delhi zoo.jpg, Hippopotamus
File:Water-birds in National Zoological Park, Delhi.jpg, Waterbirds around Lake
File:Black Bear in National Zoological Park, Delhi.jpg, Asian black bear
File:CSC 0385.jpg, Jaguar
File:National Zoological Park Birds.jpg, Birds
Official website of: "Central Zoo Authority of India" (CZA), Government of India
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History
The Delhi zoo came decades later after New Delhi was built. although the idea to have a zoo at the national capital was mooted in 1951, the park was inaugurated in November 1959.
In 1952 the Indian Board for Wildlife created a committee to look into creating a zoo for Delhi. The government of India was to develop the zoo and then turn it over to Delhi as a working enterprise. In 1953 the committee approved the location of the zoo, and in October 1955 it assigned N. D. Bachkheti of the Indian Forest Service to oversee the creation of the zoo.
Initially Major Aubrey Weinman
Major Aubrey Neil Weinman, OBE CMZS (1897–10 August 1967) was a Ceylonese soldier, civil servant and naturalist. He was the first Director of the Colombo Zoological Gardens (1947-1962).
Early life
Weinman was born in Colombo, the son of ...
of the Ceylon Zoological Garden (now the National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka) was asked to help draw the plans for the zoo, but because he was not available for the long term, Carl Hagenbeck
Carl Hagenbeck (10 June 1844 – 14 April 1913) was a Germans, German merchant of wild animals who supplied many European zoos, as well as P. T. Barnum. He created the modern zoo with animal enclosures without bars that were closer to their natu ...
of the Zoological Garden of Hamburg
The Zoological Garden of Hamburg (German: ''Zoologischer Garten zu Hamburg'') was a zoo in Hamburg, Germany that operated from 1863 until 1930. Its aquarium, which opened in 1864, was among the first in the world.
Founding
In the 1850s, Hamb ...
was hired. In March 1956, Hagenbeck presented a preliminary plan, which included the recommendation to use moated enclosures for the new zoo. The plan was modified as needed to account for local conditions, and approved by the Indian government in December 1956.
By the end of 1959, the Northern part of the zoo was complete, and animals which had been arriving for some time and which had been housed in temporary pens were moved into their permanent homes. The park was opened on 1 November 1959 as the Delhi Zoo. In 1982 it was officially renamed to National Zoological Park, with hopes that it could become a model for other zoos in the country.
Maqsood incident
On 23 September 2014, a man named Maqsood, fell in white tiger's moat accidentally. The children around started throwing stones at the tiger. The man was then carried away and mauled by the enraged tiger after some minutes. The man later succumbed to his injuries. The incident, which took place between 12.30 pm and 1 pm, created a sensation and word soon spread through the metropolis, with pictures and video of the tiger - one of the zoo's star attractions - dragging the man going viral.Exhibits
The zoo is home to about 1350 animals representing almost 130 species of animals and birds from around the world.
Mammals
Birds
Reptiles
Conservation breeding
The zoo is part of conservation breeding programmes of the Central Zoo Authority for the royal Bengal tiger, Indian rhinoceros, swamp deer, Asiatic lion, brow antlered deer, and red junglefowl. The breeding program for the brow-antlered deer has been successful, starting with a pair of these deer in 1962, that individuals from the herd have been distributed to zoos in Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Junagarh, and Mysore, and have acclimated well to all of these locations.Gallery
See also
*Najafgarh drain bird sanctuary
Najafgarh drain bird sanctuary ''(proposed)'' and wetland ecosystem is composed of the wetland ecosystem and wildlife habitat on several kilometres of the Najafgarh drain or nullah which passes through rural southwest Delhi in India's capital t ...
, Delhi
* Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary
Asola-Bhati Wildlife Sanctuary covering 32.71 km2 area on the Southern Delhi Ridge of Aravalli hill range on Delhi-Haryana border lies in Southern Delhi as well as northern parts of Faridabad and Gurugram districts of Haryana state.
, Delhi
* Sultanpur National Park, bordering Delhi in adjoining Gurgaon District, Haryana
* Okhla Sanctuary, bordering Delhi in adjoining Uttar Pradesh
References
External links
*Official website of: "Central Zoo Authority of India" (CZA), Government of India
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