Darjeeling Zoo

There is good news for animal lovers from the Darjeeling Zoo. Two red pandas there - Teesta and Nira - have given birth to two cubs each. The zoo has also welcomed a baby snow leopard.

An official of the Darjeeling-based zoo said that it was the birth of the fifth red panda at the park this season.

With schools closed, Internet suspended and playgrounds off-limits due to the indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling since June 15, the children have nowhere to go. Malls, cinema halls, the zoo also remained out of bounds for them. "Our parents don't allow us to go outside and play. The police uncles are not allowing us to play on the road. Inside the h...

Over 350 zoo inmates of a specialised zoo located in Darjeeling, known for its conservation and breeding programmes of highly endangered animals, are facing the heat of the ongoing shutdown with food supplies fast drying up.

Darjeeling zoo, left with eight female and a lone male snow leopard, has now got a male big cat from England while another from France will arrive later this year for breeding conservation programme.

West Bengal's Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP), India's largest high altitude zoo, has become the first to be selected for the prestigious Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Earth Heroes Awards 2014.

To reintroduce captive-bred endangered animals like red panda and snow leopard into the wild, the Darjeeling zoo has now started a new breeding conservation centre for wildlife.

There is good news for animal lovers from the Darjeeling Zoo. Two red pandas there - Teesta and Nira - have given birth to two cubs each. The zoo has also welcomed a baby snow leopard.

An official of the Darjeeling-based zoo said that it was the birth of the fifth red panda at the park this season.

With schools closed, Internet suspended and playgrounds off-limits due to the indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling since June 15, the children have nowhere to go. Malls, cinema halls, the zoo also remained out of bounds for them. "Our parents don't allow us to go outside and play. The police uncles are not allowing us to play on the road. Inside the h...

Over 350 zoo inmates of a specialised zoo located in Darjeeling, known for its conservation and breeding programmes of highly endangered animals, are facing the heat of the ongoing shutdown with food supplies fast drying up.

Darjeeling zoo, left with eight female and a lone male snow leopard, has now got a male big cat from England while another from France will arrive later this year for breeding conservation programme.

West Bengal's Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP), India's largest high altitude zoo, has become the first to be selected for the prestigious Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Earth Heroes Awards 2014.

To reintroduce captive-bred endangered animals like red panda and snow leopard into the wild, the Darjeeling zoo has now started a new breeding conservation centre for wildlife.