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World bank to fund Zoological Park in Andhrapradesh

  • Hudhud-ravaged Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in Visakhapatnam will be funded seven million dollars for restoration and development as a world-class international ecological park by the World Bank. 

  • Under the Andhra Pradesh Disaster Recovery Project, the bank in-principle has sanctioned 250 million dollars.

  • The beach city zoo suffered very severe damage when winds reaching a speed of 250 km per hour blew after Cyclone Hudhud made its landfall near Kailasagiri hills close to the zoo in October 2014.

  • The cyclone killed 11 animals, and some 180 birds and animals escaped from their damaged enclosures.

  • The World Bank is set to loan $20 million (around Rs 135.5 crore).

  • The amount is part of the $370 million (Rs 2,508 crore) Andhra Pradesh Disaster Recovery Project, for which the bank is providing assistance worth $250 million (Rs 1,694 crore) from 2015 to 2020.

  • The project will focus on making the civil structures disaster-resilient, re-establishing lost nurseries and setting up green shelter beds to act as windbreaks.

  • The World Bank will be partnering with the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department and the Central Zoo Authority for it.

Indira Gandhi Zoological Park:

  • Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is located amidst Kambalakonda Reserve Forest in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

  • It covers an area of 625 acres (253 ha).

  • It is surrounded by Eastern Ghats on three sides and Bay of Bengal on the fourth side.

  • Nearly eighty species of animals numbering to about eight hundred are present in the zoo.

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