patna many people expressed concern over the everincreasing cruelty against stray dogs cats and even pets on the occasion of world animal day on mondaythe joint director of the gangetic plains regional centre gopal sharma told this newspaper that the state had already been celebrating wildlife week from october 2 to 8 by organizing various public awareness programmes for people especially children so that they do not harm animals climate change impacts both humans and animals in the name of development we are destroying the habitats of wild animals by making roads and cutting forests he saidsatyajeet kumar the director of sanjay gandhi biological park pointed out that october 4 was celebrated as international zookeeper day because they take care of all the inmates various programmes of their interest including boat race tug of war quiz and community lunch were organized he addedtalking about the patna zoo satyajeet said there are more than 1100 animals belonging to 90 species hered k paul a member of people for animals a welfare organization pointed out that this years theme for world animal day was forests and livelihoods sustaining people and planet we should take necessary steps for conserving our natural resources like forests and water bodies as well as the environment for safeguarding the lives of animals and humans he said paul also observed that there was an urgent need to effectively implement the laws made for the protection of animals he added our children should be educated to have respect for animals and treat them with kindness and love food and shelter should be provided to stray animals by the government and the ngos to ensure their safety he also suggested a complete ban on dissection of animals in scientific studies and researchthe head of the zoology department in patna university arbind kumar said since the united nations has already declared 20212030 as the ecosystem restoration decade we must strive hard for saving the biodiversity from being degraded and protecting the lives of all living creatures including plants and animals besides we should be kind to all animals