Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav released white tiger cubs today in arena of white tiger enclosure in National Zoological Park, New Delhi by flagging off .
The Union Minister has named female cub as “Avani” meaning earth & male cub as “Vyom” which means universe. The parentage consists of father Vijay and mother tigress Sita.
Tigress Sita delivered these cubs on 24.08.2022. Now these two cubs, one male and one female, are about 8 months old.
These cubs till now were kept in night shelter and in the side kraal during day time with mother. As the cubs need more area for their movement they are being released in the bigger area i.e. arena in visitor display.
Yadav also interacted with school children to promote Mission LIFE and shared the importance of sustainable way of living and natural resource conservation. Group of about 100 students and staff from various schools of New Delhi attended the programme and showed enthusiasm to promote wildlife conservation. After the release of white tiger cubs zoo walk was conducted for the school students.
Director General of Forest & Special Secretary, MOEF&CC Chandra Prakash Goyal, ADG (Forest Conservation) Satya Prakash Yadav, ADG(Wildlife) Bivash Ranjan, Member Secretary, Central Zoo Authority, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Shukla ,IG Wildlife Rohit Tiwari and officials from MOEFCC were also present on the occasion.
