Date:15/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/15/stories/2008121558140300.htm

Tamil Nadu - Tiruchi

Minister’s efforts to establish zoo lauded

Staff Reporter

Tiruchi: The MGR Nal Pani Mandram has appreciated and thanked Forest Minister N. Selvaraj for making efforts to establish a zoological park near Tiruchi. In a statement, its founder secretary N. Ramakrishnan said the establishment of a zoo was a big scheme which would prove a boon for the district.

He appealed to the Forest and Police authorities to take steps to check killing of rare animals and birds in Samayapuram, Mannachanallur and Cauvery ‘padugai’ areas.