Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park

• Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park, Ranchi, popularly known as Bhagwan Birsa Zoo, Ranchi is one of the most beautiful and progressive zoos in India, having 104 ha of area of mildly undulating topography with natural dry deciduous Sal forests & water bodies in and around it. The park is situated on both the sides of National Highway 33, at about 20 kms from the Ranchi city, the capital of Jharkhand. The part of the park on the northern side of the NH is the botanical section consisting of an area of 23 Ha, while the larger part of the park on the other side of NH is the zoological section or the main Zoo spread over an area of 81 Ha. of area. Most of the inmates of the zoo live in open, large moated areas surrounded by natural vegetation which provides them the naturalistic habitat and environment.

• The objectives of the Park are conservation of rare, threatened and endangered species of fauna and facilitating the linkage between ex-situ and in-situ conservation, breeding and rearing of endangered faunal species with the object of saving them from extinction, and creation of awareness and education in wildlife conservation through zoo-people interface.