Jammu: Chief Wildlife Warden J&K Suresh Kumar Gupta Monday said that major expansion of Jambu Zoo, aimed at making it one of the largest zoos of North India by utilising its 163 hectares land still available for development, was on the anvil.
Gupta was responding to media queries after Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the much-awaited zoo at Nagrota.
“So far we have utilised only 40 percent of the land available. We will use 163 hectares of land still available to make it one of the largest zoos of North India as per the instructions of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. Animal enclosures have already been constructed in a manner to give them a semblance of natural habitat. We have followed the latest guidelines of the Central Zoo Authority. I assure you that it will give a unique experience to the visitors with the kind of facilities it is offering besides serving as an educational centre, creating awareness about wildlife and biodiversity conservation,” he said.
Gupta said that the Zoo, which was already having leopards, black bears, rare variety of small cats, deer species like Sambar, Chital, barking, and hog deer and Nilgai besides varieties of snakes, would bring lion, tiger, sloths and crocodiles in a period of two months or so.