{"id":39237,"date":"2021-07-30T23:18:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39237"},"modified":"2021-07-30T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:18:32","slug":"india-reptile-park-struggles-to-survive-amid-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39237","title":{"rendered":"India reptile park struggles to survive amid Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Founded in 1972 in India\u2019s Chennai city, the Guindy Snake Park is home to some of the most unique reptiles in India. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">From cobras to iguanas, and thousands of crocodiles and alligators, it has been a favourite spot of animal lovers for years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But with Covid lockdowns choking the flow of visitors, the authorities are struggling for funds. And the future of these animals now hangs in the balance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The park had to be shuttered twice recently as the pandemic ravaged Indian cities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">With sale of tickets making up half the revenue, authorities say they don&#8217;t have enough money to even feed the reptiles or pay the staff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Video by BBC Tamil&#8217;s Jerin Samuel and Vijay Anand<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Produced by Kinjal Pandya-Wagh<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-58025057\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1972 in India\u2019s Chennai city, the Guindy Snake Park is home to some of the most unique reptiles in India. From cobras to iguanas, and thousands of crocodiles and alligators, it has been a favourite spot of animal lovers for years. But with Covid lockdowns choking the flow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119659144_p09qw21z.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}