Lalitpur, September 28:

Around one million people visited the Central Zoo (CZ) at Jawalakhel in the last fiscal year. Keeping this surge in visitors, the management body is all set to upgrade the physical design of the zoo.

The number of visitors had dwindled in the past decade due to the insurgency in the country.

R K Shrestha, director of the CZ said that about 28,000 people visited the zoo on Baishak 1, 2064 alone.

“In the earlier years, the number of visitors never exceeded nine thousand a day. In this context, we have been encouraged to improve the zoo.” Records show that more than 3,000 people visit the zoo every day.

The zoo houses over 1,000 animals, including 15 endangered animals like one-horned rhino, tiger, clouded leopard and python.