Visakhapatnam: The Indira Gandhi Zoological Park has initiated steps to bring 10 different species of wild animals and birds from Israel, Colombo, Germany, Czech Republic and Japan zoos this year. Zoo curator B. Vijaya Kumar said that Chapman Zebra, Oliver Baboon from Israel, Fishing cat, Pygmy Hippopotamus from Colombo, Red Necked Wallabies, Scarlet Macaw, Military Macaw from the Czech Republic and Greater Flamingos from Japan would be brought to the zoo park in this fiscal only.

Under the International Animal Exchange Programmes, zoos can bring inmates from other places after obtaining permission from Central Zoo Authority. “Impressed with the vast natural habitat of the zoo, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) had shown interest to give four zebras,” he said.