Zoo opens in Ingushetia

The first zoo in Ingushetia has opened in Nazran, ITAR-TASS reports.

Stavropol, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria helped provide animals. The Ingush Ministry of Labor and Social Development says that the zoo has swans, pheasants, guinea fowls, falcons, wild geese and ducks, ponies, a camel, a roe, wild ox, a racoon, a badger, and yaks. Lions and tigers will arrive in the near future.

The zoo will be free of charge for children from low-income families and homes.