Kanpur Zoo set to soon welcome new animals

Soon the visitors to the Allen Forest (Kanpur zoo) will get a chance to see fox and clouded leopard.

Kanpur Zoo set to soon welcome new animals
KANPUR: Soon the visitors to the Allen Forest (Kanpur zoo) will get a chance to see fox and clouded leopard. This will be for the first time that the zoo will house a fox and a different specie of a leopard. Also, visitors will be able to see chinakaras (a type of deer) and stump-tailed macaque (a kind of a monkey). These animals will come to Kanpur zoo under the animal exchange programme with other zoos in the country.

While a pair of fox and two pairs of chinkaras will come from Rewari zoo in Haryana, Assam zoo will give stump-tailed macaque and leopard, one pair each. The Kanpur zoo will give one Himalayan black bear, a pair of hyena and one pair of blackbuck (a type of deer) in exchange.

Talking to TOI, Kanpur zoo director Deepak Kumar said that this animal exchange with Rewari and Assam zoos has been finalised and the acceptance from principal chief conservator of forest (PCCF) Rupak De has been received. He said both the zoos have also agreed to give us our demanded animals. Kanpur zoo will soon house a fox and clouded leopard for the first time.

He said that now the acceptance for exchange is to be sought from Central Zoo Authority (CZA) for which application has been moved.

On being asked when will these animals will reach Kanpur zoo, Kumar said that it may take 15-30 days for the acceptance from CZA and the transfer of animals to take place.

The clouded leopard is a cat which has been classified as Vulnerable in 2008 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Its total population size is suspected to be fewer than 10,000 mature individuals, with a decreasing population trend, and no single population numbering more than 1,000 adults.
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