LAHORE: The Punjab Wildlife Department will upgrade Lahore Zoo Safari on Raiwind Road to turn it into a place of great attraction.

Zoo Safari houses 32 lions. The management is extending the space by including a certain area in the lion safari reserved for ungulates.

Zoo Safari in charge Tanveer Janjua told Dawn that a Natural History Museum would also be established at the safari for which consultants would be hired to determine habitat and material to establish the natural history museum.

He said a tram would also be introduced at Zoo Safari, which would visit every cage and the key person through the public address system, would educate the visitors about the animals and birds. He said paid fishing at the safari lake was already in place and a visitor can catch three fish against a Rs1,000 fee. The lake houses different kinds of fish. Also, 48 surveillance cameras would be installed and e-ticketing would be introduced under the digitization programme.

The safari is established on 242 acres. The management plans to build a boundary wall around it to make it safe. A novel bird aviary would be established to introduce new trends as the aviary would have different species of parrots, and the feed stalls would be established outside the aviary.

Mr Janjua said visitors would buy feed from the stalls and enter the aviary to feed birds.

Published in Dawn, July 19th, 2022