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| October 20, 2009 | Nandankanan Zoo celebrates birthday of two tiger cubs | | Bhubaneswar: The Nandankanan Zoo in Orissa on
Tuesday celebrated the birthday of two tiger cubs. The zoo was decorated and a
cake was cut to celebrate the birthday of Payal and Khushi, the cubs born of a
white tigress Kusum. "Today both these cubs completed one-year. Till now they
were living with their mother but today they were released for public display.
Today we celebrated their birthday and called the school kids as well," said Sudarshan
Panda, District Forest Officer (DFO). The celebrations were a good way to raise
awareness amongst the people about tiger conservation. "This is a new way to celebrate
the tiger's birthday. Here it is an innovative method and nowhere tiger's birthday
is celebrated but in Nandankanan they have opened a very good opportunity for
us," said Baisakhi Bhanjdeo, a school student. Illegal poaching and loss of natural
habitat have caused the country’s tiger population to plummet in recent decades.
India 's latest tiger census counted just 1,411 cats, down from 3,642 in 2002
and around 40,000 a century ago. | |
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