Karachi: Mayor Wasim Akhtar on Wednesday (July 22) announced that the city council had passed a resolution under which the local Zoological Garden facility would be declared a ‘family zoo’, according to news sources.
The mayor made this announcement while attending the cake-cutting ceremony held to mark 150 years of Karachi Zoo. He also inaugurated various uplift projects, and the newly-rehabilitated office of the zoo directorate and public announcement system.
Mayor Akhtar said that the uplift work was executed by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), during the coronavirus lockdown and has provided all the required facilities. He said that the Zoological Garden was one of the oldest structures in Pakistan and that 40% of its area is housing 900 animals and birds, while 60% area is devoted to the natural landscape. He revealed that a veterinary hospital is also established instructed to treat the ailing animals and that KMC is also incurring the cost of basic feed and medicine of animals, despite its limited resources.
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