Animals at Jijamata Udyaan in Byculla, who have been suffering in the scorching heat with little or filthy water and dirty, smelly enclosures, are finally feeling better. Authorities have cleaned their enclosures and made arrangements for clean drinking water. The authorities took up the issue after several inquiries were made and after MiD DAY’s report dated on May 26 (‘Dirty water, dusty enclosures plague Byculla Zoo’) exposing the poor conditions that the animals had to endure.

Animals were shifted into a temporary accommodation for the duration of the clean-up, during which enclosures for the crocodiles and hippopotamuses were filled with a minimum of 10,000 litres of fresh water. Earlier, animals in the zoo were left parched and thirsty as no water was provided to them and their enclosures emanated a foul odour. Pic/Bipin Kokate