{"id":123959,"date":"2026-09-11T14:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=123959"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:03:17","slug":"nandankanan-zoological-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nandankanan-zoological-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Nandankanan Zoological Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Nandankanan Zoological Park Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nandankanan Zoological Park recently introduced musical therapy for the five abandoned baby orangutans to help them cope with stress.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Nandankanan Zoological Park<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nandankanan, literally meaning \u201cThe <\/span><b>Garden of Heaven\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is located on the <\/span><b>banks of Kanjia Lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Barang, about <\/span><b>20 km from Bhubaneswar,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the capital city of <\/span><b>Odisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike other zoos in the country, it has been <\/span><b>built inside a natural forest (Chandaka Forest),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is moist deciduous in nature and remains semi-evergreen.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also <\/span><b>contains a botanical garden<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>part of it has been declared a sanctuary.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>first zoo in India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><b>gain membership in the World Association of Zoos &amp; Aquariums (WAZA).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>sole zoo in India <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to i<\/span><b>nspire an express train named after it<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014the <\/span><b>Nandankanan Express<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as recognised by the Indian Railways.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since its inception, the zoo has been successful in breeding several endangered species, including Leopard, Tiger, Lion-tailed macaque, Asiatic lion, Nilgiri langur, Mouse deer, Indian pangolin, Indian crocodiles, Ratel, Brow-antlered deer, and many other water and land birds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nandankanan has the distinction of being the <\/span><b>first zoo in the world to breed Melanistic and White tigers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>sole conservation breeding center for Indian Pangolins<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across the globe.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>first zoo in the country<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to feature an <\/span><b>open-top enclosure for leopards<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and also the <\/span><b>first where endangered Ratels were born in captivity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also known for being the <\/span><b>first one <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to begin <\/span><b>captive breeding of Gharials.\u00a0 <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/india\/nandankanan-orangutans-music-therapy-and-toys-help-five-abandoned-babies-cope-prnt\/cid\/2179349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TELE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nandankanan Zoological Park is located on the banks of Kanjia Lake in Barang, about 20 km from Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":124011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10175],"class_list":["post-123959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-nandankanan-zoological-park","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124019,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123959\/revisions\/124019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}