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Bid to save endangered red panda from extinction in Sikkim
by
Tanshi Pradhan
Gangtok:
Sikkim is making efforts to save endangered Red Panda
from extinction. The Himalayan Zoological Park (HZP),
Gangtok in collaboration with the State Forest Department
has initiated a programme for the conservation and breeding
of Red Panda at a natural enclosure in the park. "Red
panda is an endangered species. We are in an initial stage
now. We have already set up a small venture-breading centre
for Red Panda. Presently, we have six animals, two females
and four males. In the conservation breeding programme,
we have been successful since 1999 when a male was brought
from Darjeeling zoo and a female was brought from Holland,"
said Gut Lepcha, Additional Director of Forest, HZP. A
newly born Red Panda, born six months back in June at
the breeding centre in the HZP, has been identified as
a male one. Presently, there are six red pandas (4 male
and 2 female) being incarcerated in an architectural enclosure
in the Park. The State Government has asked the forest
department to draft a master plan for the zoo, which also
includes the architectural remodeling of the enclosure
of Red Panda, various programs for its conservation and
breeding. The State Government is very keen to expand
the Red Panda breeding and also to initiate similar program
for Snow Leopard and other targeted species for which
the ideal sites have been identified. Red Panda, one of
the rare and endangered animal species in the world categorized
in Schedule I of Wildlife Protection Act and International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is the state
animal of Sikkim.
-Jan
15, 2009
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