or perspective on goas biodiversity and environmental challenges while indian zoos continue their unplanned slaughter the rest of the world is rapidly moving to another era of wildlife management and nature conservation that is now a universal sentiment which becomes inescapable on any visit to almost any zoo anywhere including bondla marooned in the jungle park many thousands of miles and oceans away from her native subsaharan africa she remained a star attraction for visitors ever since being traded from mysore along with her mate devidas in 2013 in exchange for a pair of sloth bears many native bird species are being moved directly to the citys own vast riverside ecological reserve while other animals are to be transferred to suitable habitats around the country now the need is for animal rehabilitation centres where injured or distressed specimens are carefully attended which also serve as education facilities focused on local environmental challenges there is no education taking place at bondla the writer is a photographer and a widely published columnist says larreta this situation of captivity is degrading for the animals geographically tiny the state nonetheless encompasses a very wide range of habitats brimming over with plant animal bird amphibian and insect species many of which are endangered now one has died even before appearing in public view the result is most zoo animals in india live under death sentence the only variable is when and how fast the end will come eventually the forest department was compelled to announce the loss of their prize asset despite regularly losing animals and consistently topping lists of the worlds worst zoos for animal welfare the parks administration managed to push through an astonishingly illconceived 45 crore plan to bring eight penguins south american birds that thrive in extremely cold climates to bakinghot tropical maharashtra against the advice protests and severe warnings of every possible expert