Good News: Class 12 student adopts African lioness in memory of late grandfather

Akshita Rao Gamji, a class 12 student adopted an African lioness named ‘Adishana’ for a year at the Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad. As per the ANI report, the teenager decided to adopt the animal ahead of World Animal Welfare Day in the memory of her late grandfather, G Manoher Rao and handed over the cheque of Rs 1 lakh for the adoption to N Kshitija, IFS, Curator, Nehru Zoological Park.

Akshita was accompanied by her parents Gandhi Gamji and Manju Gamji with A Shankaran, ormer Curator and A Nagamani, Deputy Curator of the Nehru Zoological Park already present at the location. The park is currently home to at least seven Asiatic lions. 

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12-year-old adopts Bengal tiger

As a part of a unique birthday celebration, a 12-year-old boy adopted a Royal Bengal Tiger in the same park, Nehru Zoological Park, Telangana. Chinmay Siddharth Shah, who is a student of class 7th, visited the zoological park where he handed over a cheque of Rs 25,000 to zoo officials to formally adopt the beast named 'Sankalp’. As per ANI, Sankalp has been adopted for a period of three months.

In an official release, the zoological park mentioned that Chinmay along with his father Siddharth Kantilal Shah visited the office of the curator and handed over the cheque to A Nagamani, Deputy Curator Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad. On the same day, Havisha Jain and Vihaan Atul Shah adopted nocturnal animals, and small birds were adopted by sisters Preksha, Priyal, Dhwani and Bhakti Nagda who handed over a cheque of Rs 5,000 each.

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Nagamani lauded children for showing a great gesture of adopting the tiger and birds and, thanked them for love and affection towards the conservation of wildlife. She also urged the citizens to come forward and adopt animals at the Hyderabad based zoological park.

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(With ANI inputs)

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