CZA comes under attack from CAG

The Hindu

New Delhi (PTI): The Central Zoo Authority has come under attack from the CAG for failing to arrest the count of prolifically-breeding species such as tiger and spotted deer in zoos across the country thus adversely affecting their health.

In its report for 2008-09, CAG said several zoos have proliferating-breeding species such as tiger, leopard, panther, black-buck, sambar, spotted deer and blue-bull causing infighting and at times death due to lack of space besides a drain on resources.

It noted that in some of the zoos such as Vihar National Park and Sepahijala Zoological Park, the count of tigers was as high as 44 against the optimum number of six for the endangered species.

The situation of captive animals such as spotted deer and samber deer was not very satisfactory either with some of the zoos housing as many as 882 animals against optimum capacity of 12-20.

“Necessary steps may be taken to control the count of the species or to transfer the excess animals to other zoos so that problems like infighting and death arising from lack of space as well as drain on financial resources of the zoo can be avoided,” the CAG has suggested.

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