The popular Vandalur zoo gets more visitors but lack of maintenance is worrying now
Posted on: 11/Jun/2018 11:46:04 AM
Ever since it was opened for the public in the year 1985, Vandalur zoo or Arignar Anna Zoological Park has been attracting many people. This vandalur zoo is situated over a massive area of 602 hectares is known.
These days more people are visiting this amazing zoo with their families and by that the cash inflow has increased hugely. The sad piece of news is the lack of maintenance of this Vandalur zoo.
The butterfly enclosure in this zoo has been attracting many visitors is well known. This has now become a sore to the eyes and there is nothing colourful here. This had disappointed many visitors who bring their kids. This butterfly enclosure was built at a cost of 6 million in the shape of a caterpillar and is present over an area of 2.5 hectarres. Many people coming here were shocked to see the overheated enclosure with deserted look as the plants present in this enclosure have gone dry and dull.
A senior official belonging to this Vandalur zoo spoke about how the acrylic roof sheet present above might be responsible for the heat and how it could be replaced to improve the conditions. He then hinted that the officials concerned have been informed about the situation. Lack of proper maintenance of otter enclosure is also another cause of concern as the fresh water mammals survive in the non-cleaned algae ridden water.
A veterinarian expressed his thoughts and concern regarding the otter enclosure maintenance and spoke about how poor maintenance would affect the otter’s skin plus their health. A wildlife biologist spoke about how the otters were weaned away from their mother when they were young and he later spoke about how the officials should have ensured circulation of clean water in their enclosure.
A source belonging to the zoo spoke about how there were 2 enclosures available for the otters and how during the cleaning of the primary enclosures the mammals would be shifted to the secondary enclosure. He highlighted that the water leak in the secondary enclosure was not repaired and cleaning was not possible.
It is really sensational that in this year 2018 in the months of April and May the zoo had as many as 4.72 lakh visitors and an amount of Rs 2.89 cores were generated. In the last year 2017, 3.86 lakh people came to this zoo in the same time period and amount of Rs 2.53 crores were generated.
