Kanpur Zoo

• Nearly all the enclosures are small and barren and do not have any enrichment.
• No fresh food or clean water for drinking or swimming was observed in many of the enclosures.
• Many enclosures were poorly maintained and lacked proper safety barriers. All the moats surrounding enclosures were dry. The deer were able to escape their enclosure and wander close to the cheetah pen.
• Many of the enclosures are littered with food and trash.
• Many of the animals, such as the deer, monkeys and the neelgai, have access to two open drains which run through the zoo. As a result of drinking the dirty water, some animals have reportedly become sick with contagious diseases like tuberculosis.
• Many enclosures for the larger animals lack proper shade.
• The visitors were seen teasing the animals and throwing stones at the tiger and the crocodiles.
• The orang-utan's enclosure reeked from rotting food and the animal's waste.
• A brown capuchin monkey had two or three large open wounds on his body and had no shelter.
• A squirrel was covered with bald patches.
• No educational material is available.

The rhinoceros enclosure is barren.

There is dirty stagnant water in the rhinoceros enclosure.

This is one of two drains which runs right through the zoo.

This orang-utan lives in a barren cement cage with no environmental enrichment at all.