Gorewada Zoo

In 2006, the Government of Maharashtra identified approximately 1,914 hectares of forest suitable for establishing the project, adjacent to Gorewada Lake and 8 km (5.0 mi) from the city of Nagpur. The project was entrusted to the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra. To make the zoo financially viable, the state government transferred an additional 26 hectares of non-forest land for commercial utilization.

The zoo was inaugurated by the erstwhile Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, on 26 January 2021.^[2][3] The project was renamed from the Gorewada Zoo to the Balasaheb Thackeray Gorewada International Zoological Park.^[1]