Ex-Situ Conservation in West Bengal is carried out at :

Alipore Zoological Gardens, Kolkata

Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling.


Both these centers are engaged in protection of wild life and also in captive breeding of endangered wild animals.

The Bengal Natural History Museum, Darjeeling is now under the management of the State Forest Department.

Ex-Situ conservation is conservation outside the natural habitats and in genetic resource centers, zoos, botanical gardens culture collections, seed banks, sperm banks etc. or in the form of germplasm bank in vitro. Ex Situ Conservation in West Bengal is carried out at Calcutta Zoological Park and Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological park. Both these centers are engaged in protection of wild life and also in captive breeding of endangered wild animals.

The Bengal Natural History Museum, Darjeeling is now under the management of the State Forest Department.

Ex-Situ Centres are also located at the:

1. Rajabhatkhawa ( Buxa Tiger Reserve)
2. Madarighat (Jaldapara Sanctuary)
3. Moorti(Gorumara National park)
4. Skukna(Mahananda Sanctuary)
5. Kalimpong
6. Sajnekhali(Sunderban tiger Reserve)

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• Maintenance of Ex-situ Conservation and Propagation Centres – In this component, existing production capacity of forest nurseries is enhanced in order to use such nurseries as ex-situ conservation centres and production centers of quality planting materials.

• The target of species here includes not only those occurring in the wild but also those important ones which are cultivated.

• Propagation centres have been established in various locations, namely, Sukna, Garubathan, Sonada in Darjeeling district; Rajabhatkhawa, Lataguri in Jalpaiguri district, Beliatore in Bankura district, and Amlachoti near Jhargram in West Midnapore district.

• Special mention may be made of the centre at Amlachoti near Jhargram. It contains plants of more than 600 species. One does not frequently come across with a gene pool reserve of such dimension.

• It is a matter of delight that during the Forestry Week, 2004, seedlings of medicinal plants have been distributed from some selected centres and such distribution received a very good response from the people.

• Pilot plantations with medicinal plants are being raised in different agro-climatic zones. The plantations are judicious mixture of trees, shrubs and herbs. Medicinal shrubs and herbs are raised as intercrop in the space between tree (forest species) lines.

• Herbal gardens as demonstration centers have been established at the following locations.During 2003-04 – Lloyd Botanic Garden (Darjeeling District), Rajabhatkhawa (Jalpaiguri District), Midnapore town (Paschim Medinipur District)

• During 2004-05 - three more herbal gardens are being raised at Chandrakona (Paschim Medinipur), Mal Park (Jalpaiguri), 5th Mile (Jalpaiguri).
  

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