Lady Hydari Park and Mini Zoo

• No clean water can be seen in the enclosures.
• Many enclosures have broken cement floors which are covered with excrement and are foul-smelling.
• No one stops visitors from carrying and openly consuming alcohol inside the zoo. Visitors can be seen pouring beer on the animals and inside their cages. The zoo is littered with beer bottles.
• On the day of our inspection, almost every visitor teased the animals. Many agitated the animals by banging on the walls of their enclosures.
• Visitors can be seen trying to touch the animals with lit cigarettes.
• One fox appeared to be petrified because of harassment.
• One palm civet had an untended injury to his tail which was caused by a visitor. The enclosure of a second civet had old bananas lying on the floor and a cement trough of drinking water which had algae growing in it.
• Sambars, barking deer and a crane share an enclosure which contains dirty pond water.
• Visitors bang on the filthy, cramped cages of nocturnal wood owls and prompt them to fly during the daytime.
• Four fish owls share a small, filthy, foul-smelling enclosure.
• One monkey is housed individually in a rusted cage.
• Two Himalayan black bears exhibited stress-induced stereotypical behaviours. No water could be found in their enclosure.

These visitors are drinking alcohol and assaulting the animals. No keeper or official intervenes.

This visitor also gives a lit cigarette to the fox. Again no one stops him.

These visitors are also throwing stones at the fox. No one tries to stop them. The netting is broken in various places, and the walls of the enclosure need to be repaired.

This civet cat has an untreated wound on his tail, which was inflicted by a human, according to another visitor.

No attempt was made to stop this visitor, who shook the cage so vigorously that he threw the bird off his perch.