Animals at tiger safari await adoption

Ludhiana: The tiger safari near Jalandhar bypass is facing problem as far as the adoption of animals is concerned, especially for the two Royal Bengal tigers. There are policies in this regard for people, who can adopt any animal at different rates, depending whether they wan to do so on daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis.
These plans have been introduced by the government of India, which include adoption of four birds at least or a single tiger. One of the tigers in the zoo is aged 12 years and is named Chirag, A male tiger and a tigress whose name is Inchra is 14 years old. These tigers could not be adopted as they came n January and after a while lockdown started because of coronavirus.
District forest officer (DFO) Khuswinder Singh said, “We want people to come up and start adopting the animals. There are some duties of as being the citizen of India and they can follow these by adopting the animals in the zoo. Proper certificates will be given to the person who will adopt any animal from the zoo, be it birds, deers, emus, jackal, tiger, etc.”
To do the adoption of any animal a person has to go to the Tiger Safari near Jalandhar bypass and can get the adoption form and fill it and submit it with the amount of money for the adoption.
“We should try to help the animals at the zoo as much as we can. They are part of the world and they need to be taken care of. These animals are a very important part of wildlife which we should preserve by taking a step forward and adopt them. Even a week’s adoption can change so many things,” said Amit Kapoor, a private employee from Haibowal.
“I wanted to adopt the animals from zoo but I am not able to because of coronavirus. My financial condition is not so good but I think of all those who can help as they should come forward and adopt any animal,” said a person who requested anonymity.