New WAZA Member Indira Gandhi Zoological Park Visakhapatnam

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Curator of Indira Gandhi Zoological park (IGZP), Nandani Salaria, announced that the zoo has been nominated as an institutional member in the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA).

WAZA is a global alliance of regional associations, national associations, as well as zoos and aquariums.
Being a part of this prestigious association will be useful for the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam, in a number of ways.

Significance

The WAZA membership implies that all members will endeavour to keep a high standard of husbandry, veterinary care, participation in coordinated species management programmes, contribution to relevant scientific studies, compliance with national and international legislation, environmental education programmes, conservation activities, and support of regional and national associations.
Through this association, IGZP will now have links to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and others.

WAZA is the global alliance of regional associations, national federations, zoos and aquariums, dedicated to the care and conservation of animals and their habitats around the world.
The membership consists of nearly 400 leading institutions and organisations around the world, and this number continues to grow.
Since 1935, the goal of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) has been to guide, encourage and support the zoos, aquariums and like‑minded organisations of the world in animal care and welfare, environmental education and global conservation.

The World Association Of Zoos and Aquariums promotes cooperation between leading zoos, aquariums, national and regional associations, as well as with leading wildlife experts, academics, and universities.
They are the voice of a global community of high‑standard conservation‑based zoos and aquariums and also a catalyst for their joint conservation action.

So by being nominated as a WAZA member, the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is going to be one of the most highly reputed associations; unifying the leading zoos and aquariums and the most influential regional zoo associations of the world.
This global association also has the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), International Zoo Educators Association (IZE), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) as its members.

Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is located amidst Kambalakonda Reserve Forest in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
It is the third largest zoo in the country.
The zoological park is named after the former Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. It was declared open to the public on 19 May 1977
It covers an area of 625 acres (253 ha). It is situated in Visakhapatnam amidst the scenic Eastern Ghats of India. It is surrounded by the Eastern Ghats on three sides and Bay of Bengal on the fourth side.
Nearly eighty species of animals numbering to about eight hundred are present in the zoo. The Zoo Park has different sections for primates, carnivores, lesser carnivores, small mammals, reptiles, ungulates and birds caged in their natural ambiance.

Zoological park is a place where various living animals are kept within enclosures, displayed to public and may be used for study.

Zoological parks are necessary in order to conserve the genotype of certain organism, so that even if the organism gets extinct from this world due to some man made factors or ecological factors, the scientific community that works on the research of zoology can get back such organism in order to maintain the fauna of a region.

Different regions in a country contain different kinds of zoological parks and contain a huge diversity of animals.
Zoological parks contain all kinds of requirements for animals which they have in the forest, proper veterinary services are also provided to the animals so that they don’t suffer from any such disease.

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