Nehru Zoological Park marks World Wildlife Day with awareness events

Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad organised a series of events on World Wildlife Day, including a clean-up drive, bird walk and snake awareness programme. Students and bird watchers participated, while officials highlighted conservation of endangered species and ecological awareness

Hyderabad: As a part of World Wildlife Day, the Nehru Zoological Park organized various events like a cleanup drive, bird walk, animal keepers’ talk shows and snakes awareness and education programmes on Tuesday.

Zoo curator, J Vasantha said a batch of 120 students from ZPHS, Koratla, participated in the clean up drive and cleaned certain areas which were inaccessible for the cleaners. A batch of 50 bird watchers from Birding Pals, visited the zoo and identified more than 90 bird species in the free ranging area.

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The city zoo is in the forefront in educating and conserving the world’s most endangered species like Asiatic Lions, Royal Bengal Tiger, One Horned Rhinoceros, Lion Tailed Macaque, Four Horned Antelope etc, she said.

In the afternoon session, snakes awareness show was conducted and the Education Officer interacted and briefed to the visitors about the importance of snakes in maintaining the ecological balance.