West Bengal (02/04/2022): Hours after two injured Kangaroos were rescued from near Gajoldoba in Jalpaiguri on Friday night, another Kangaroo was rescued by West Bengal forest officials from the Farabari-Nepali area in Dabgram forest range of Jalpaiguri the same day.
Sanjay Dutta, Ranger, Belacoba forest range under Baikunthupur forest division said, “We have initiated further investigation for ascertaining the whereabouts of these Kangaroos, by whom and how they were brought into the forest along with finding the cause behind bringing them.”
Kangaroos are traditionally residents of Australia and there hasn’t been any sighting of them Indian subcontinent.
As Indian climate and environment condition are not conducive to keeping these animals, hence they are neither found nor bred here. Joey, the last surviving kangaroo in any Indian zoo, had died at the Alipore Zoological Gardens on October 2015 aged four.
