India, July 27 -- The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) and the West Bengal forest department have launched separate investigations into alleged discrepancies in the number of wild animals at Kolkata's Alipore Zoological Garden, officials said.

Save Wild Animals of Zoo and Our Nature (Swazon), a citizens' forum in Kolkata, flagged huge differences in the number of animals in the zoo's inventory reports of 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Even though animals such as tigers, leopards, lions, and elephants are present in the Alipore Zoo, the oldest zoo in the country, the zoo's latest inventory report makes no mention of them, the citizens' forum said.

They have also approached the Calcutta High Court over the issue, and the petition is likely to be hea...