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The Forest Department has launched a summertime campy for students and the nationalist astatine the Kurumbapatti Zoological Park to rise consciousness astir forests and animals.
One of the important tourist attractions successful Salem district, the zoo, dispersed implicit 76 acres, attracts much than 1.50 lakh visitors every twelvemonth and houses much than 254 animals, including mammals, birds, and reptiles. The introduction interest is ₹50 for adults, ₹10 for children aged 6 to 12. With schools declaring summertime holidays for children, the Forest Department announced summertime camps astatine the zoo connected 5 days — May 7, 14, 21, 28 and June 4.
Students of Class III and supra tin registry for the campy by dialling 0427-2912197 oregon 80563-90717. There is nary maximum age limit. The interest for a idiosyncratic is ₹300. Last year, the Forest Department fixed ₹500 for this camp. This twelvemonth it was reduced to ₹300.
The Forest Department officials said that the campy volition beryllium held betwixt 9.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. The participants volition beryllium taken into the zoo, wherever officials volition explicate the salient features of the animals. Later, the participants volition embark connected a five-km jungle safari successful an eco-van of the Forest Department and they volition beryllium explained astir the value of forests.
Five students participated successful the campy held connected May 7. The participants volition person a campy kit, which includes a zoo ambassador certificate, a passport for escaped visits, a camouflage cap, a notepad, and a pen. Tea and snacks volition beryllium provided for the participants. Using the passport for escaped visits, the participants volition beryllium capable to sojourn the zoo 5 times astatine nary cost, the officials added.
