Hutatma Bagh Prani Sanghralaya Zoo

Solapur, Maharashtra
July 2005

• Nearly all the enclosures were small and barren and had no enrichment.
• No clean water or fresh food was observed in any of the enclosures.
• Nearly all the enclosures were poorly maintained.
• Some animals, including birds, appeared to be unhealthy, and visitors were seen feeding them inappropriate food.
• The pigeons, rabbits, geese, ducks, turkeys and bustards were kept in concrete cages with cement substrates, which were damp, dirty and strewn with food and other rubbish.
• No educational material was available.

Fourteen geese, 14 ducks and three peacocks are kept together in the same dilapidated enclosure.

Note the condition of the wire netting in the enclosure for the geese, ducks and peacocks.

Thirty pigeons and 10 rabbits are kept in this enclosure with damp cement flooring and no environmental enrichment. Half the enclosure has a tarpaulin cover when it rains.

The water tank in the rabbit and pigeon enclosure has very dirty water.