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Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park

   The park spreads over an area of 67.57 acres. Of which approximately 10 acres of this land is under display, the rest is zoo forests and old Conservation Breeding Centre.

   The zoo has been a pioneer for conservation breeding of endangered Eastern Himalayan Species in India.

   The first ex-situ conservation breeding program started in 1986 as a Snow Leopard conservation breeding project.

   The Red Panda project was started in the year 1990.

   In 2003-04 the park released 4 female Red Pandas into the Singalila National Park. This was the first reintroduction programme for the species in the world and was immensely successful.

   The park is divided into 3 sections- the lesser carnivore section, the herbivore section and the carnivore section.