Status of Animal adoption in Nagaland Zoological Park, Rangapahar

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Is it worth worrying about it all? Sure, it will be sad if there aren't any more cute animals on the planet, but it's not like we depend on them. Besides, surely it's more important to take care of humans – who, let's face it, have their own problems to worry about than to spend lakhs of rupees for preserving animals. In short, what is the point of conservation? On the face of it, there are plenty of reasons why we shouldn't bother to save endangered species. The most obvious is the staggering cost involved. One study in 2012 estimated that it would cost $76 billion a year to preserve threatened land animals. Why should we spend all that money on wildlife when we could spend it to stop people dying of starvation or disease?   It can be particularly hard to understand why anyone would want to preserve animals like wolves or lion or tiger, which pose a threat both to people and livestock. Surely there are some species we would be better off without. And Species go extinct all the time anyway, the most recent one, 65 million years ago, took out the dinosaurs.   If extinction is a natural process that goes on even in the absence of humans, why should we stop it? One answer is that species are now going extinct far faster than they used to. A recent study estimated that the extinction rate has increased a hundredfold over the last century, and we seem to be to blame. But beyond that, there's a simple reason to save species: because we depend on ECOSYSTEM for our survival and preserving animals is one way of saving our self. Adoption of Animal in NZP was initiated by Fingerprint (Dimapur) & Castle group (Kohima) in 2015 with the collaboration of Department of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. The concept is to help improve the facilities at NZP and provide sufficient feeds to the animals by means of adopting animals and paying symbolic fees for one year. The questions of why would any citizen pay any amount for such venture when it is owned by the government? The simple answer to such confusion is to understand that, as a concerned citizen, we Nagas are continuously donating wild animals to the zoo but none have donated the feeds for such donated animals. Now the real question for our fellow citizen is that, don’t we contribute to clean drainage and repair our roads to improve our travels even though we know that there is a department to look after such problems? Don’t we do so many community services to help our fellow being when there are departments for every such problem? Then why wouldn’t we adopt and preserve animals at NZP when it is the only zoo in the whole State and pride of NAGALAND (the only place worthwhile for tourist attraction in Dimapur). We encourage every individual, school, firm, association, group etc to come forward and adopt an animal to help improve NZP.   For adopting an animal at Nagaland Zoological Park Dimapur, kindly visit our Fingerprint Office at Duncan, Dimapur or call 9612741780/9612302731.   The adopters (Valid from October 2015 - till 30th June 2017)   The New Adopters List (Valid from 1st July 2017 -)