Zoological Gardens, Botanical Gardens , and Aquariums of India

The early man lived , experienced, enjoyed, observed and worshipped nature which supported him in ways more than one, in his survival. In his attempts, he copied  nature as much as possible, he practised agriculture, and domesticating animals for their products. He did use the forest wealth as if it is a perpetual source of raw materials for him, and thus destroyed precious forest wealth containing flora and fauna. Much further in evolution, he learnt and built cities with a part of nature, preserved in some outer area of his city , and called them zoological gardens, botanical gardens and aquariums. That helped in educating his progency . But he very well knew that that plants, trees and animals in the wild state, are more beautiful and healthy, when they live in vast untrodden areas. Thus, the ideas of developing bigger versions as national parks, larger game reserves and sanctuaries came up. He understood that some species of animals, plants and trees are fast disappearing and he made special efforts to preserve them, through these conservation areas. These are his developments through hundreds of years, from destroying nature to preserving portions with animals and trees, which he may never see again.

Zoological Gardens
Name	City	State
Alipore Zoological Gardens	Kolkata	West Bengal
Allen Forest Zoo	Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh
Amirthi Zoological Park	Vellore	Tamil Nadu
Arignar Anna Zoological Park Vandalur Zoo(India's 2nd biggest and oldest zoo)	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden	Guwahati	Assam
Bannerghatta National Park	near Bengaluru	Karnataka
Birsa Deer Park (Birsa Mrig Vihar)	Ranchi	Jharkhand
Bondla Zoo	Bondla	Goa
Black Buck Breeding Centre, Pipli Mini Zoo, Kurukshetra	Pipli	Haryana
Chhatbir Zoo(Mahendra Chaudhary Zoological Park)	Zirakpur	Punjab
Chennai Snake Park Trust	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
Chinkara Breeding Centre Kairu, Bhiwani	near Bahal	Haryana
Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra	Bhaur Saidan (Kurukshetra)	Haryana
Crocodile Breeding Centre, Muta	Ranchi	Jharkhand
Crocodile Rehabilitation and Research Centre (Steven Irwin Memorial)	Trivandrum	Kerala
Gorakhpur Zoological Garden	Gorakhpur	Uttar Pradesh
Gorewada Zoo	Nagpur	Maharashtra
Gopalpur Zoo	Gopalpur	Himachal Pradesh
Gulab Bagh and Zoo	Udaipur	Rajasthan
Hisar Deer Park		Haryana
Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (India's 3rd biggest)	Visakhapatnam	Andhra Pradesh
Indore Zoo	Indore	Madhya Pradesh
Jaipur Zoo	Jaipur	Rajasthan
Jawaharlal Nehru Biological Park	Bokaro Steel City	Jharkhand
Jijamata Udyaan	Mumbai	Maharashtra
Kakatiya Zoological Park, Warangal	Warangal	Telengana
Kamla Nehru Zoological Park, Kankaria	Ahmedabad	Gujrat
Kurukshetra Zoo	Kurukshetra	Haryana
Lucknow Zoo	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh
Madras Crocodile Bank Trust	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
Maitri Bagh	Bhilai Nagar	Chhattisgarh
Manda Zoo	Jammu City	Jammu
Marble Palace zoo	Kolkata	West Bengal
Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens / Mysore Zoo	Mysuru	Karnataka
Maharajbagh zoo	Nagpur	Maharashtra
Nandankanan Zoological Park(India's 2nd biggest)	Bhubaneswar	Odisha
National Zoological Park	Delhi
Nehru Zoological Park	Hyderabad	Telangana
Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park	Darjeeling	West Bengal
Parassinikkadavu Snake Park	Kannur District	Kerala
Peacock & Chinkara Breading Centre, Jhabua	Rewari district	Haryana
[[Pilikula Biological Park]	Mangalore	Karnataka
Pheasant Breeding Centre, Berwala	in Panchkula district	Haryana
Pheasant Breeding Centre Morni	in Panchkula district	Haryana
Pt. G.B. Pant High Altitude Zoo, Nainital	Nainital	Uttarakhand
Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park	Pune	Maharashtra
Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park(Estd 1987)	Ranchi	Jharkhand
Rohtak Zoo		Haryana
Sakkarbaug Zoological Garden(Oldest Indian zoo)	Junagadh	Gujarat
Sanjay Gandhi Jaivik Udyan, Patna	Patna	Bihar
Sarthana Zoo	Surat	Gujarat
Sarnath Deer Park	Varanasi	Uttar Pradesh
Sayaji Baug Zoo	Vadodara	Gujarat
Sipahijola Wildlife Sanctuary	Bishalgarh	Tripura
Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park (largest in India)	Tirupati	Andhra Pradesh
Tata Steel Zoological Park	Jamshedpur	Jharkhand
Thiruvananthapuram Zoo.(built by Maharaja of Travancore, one of the oldest in Asia)	Trivandrum	Kerala
Thrissur Zoo	Thrissur	Kerala
Vulture Conservation and Breeding Centre, Pinjore	Pinjore	Haryana
Etawah Safari Park	Etawah	Uttar Pradesh
Botanical Gardens
Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden, Guwahati	Guwahati	Assam
Sanjay Gandhi Jaivik Udyan, Patna	Bihar	Bihar
Hyderabad Botanical Garden	Hyderabad	Telangana
NTR Garden, Hyderabad	Hyderabad	Telangana
Panjab University Botanical Garden	Chandigarh	http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=929
Botanical Garden Sarangpur, Sarangpur	Chandigarh
Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad	Gujarat
Botanical garden Vaghai, Saputara	Saputara	Gujarat
R. B. Botanical Garden and Amusement Park	Ahmedabad	Gujarat
The Garça Branca Ayurvedic Botanical Garden, Loutolim	Loutolim	Goa
Cubbon Park, Bangalore	Bangalore	Karnataka
Curzon Park, Mysore	Mysore	Karnataka
Jijamata Udyaan, Mumbai	Mumbai	Maharashtra
Pilikula Arboretum, Pilikula Nisargadhama(Botanical Garden), Mangalore	Mangalore	Karnataka
Regional Museum of Natural History Mysore, Mysore	Mysore	Karnataka
University of Mysore Botanic Garden, Mysore	Mysore	Karnataka
Prof. Nagaraj botanical garden in Botany department G U KALABURGI	Kalaburgi	Karnataka
Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Trivandrum ( biggest conserver of largest number of plant species  in  Asia)	Trivandrum	Kerala
Vellayani Agricultural College, Trivandrum	Trivandrum	Kerala
Malabar Botanical garden, Kozhikode	Kozhikode	Kerala
Empress Garden, Pune	Pune	Maharashtra
Odisha State Botanical Garden, Nandankanan, Bhubaneswar	Bhubhaneswar	Odisha
Botanical garden Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar	Amritsar	Punjab
Botanical garden Punjabi University, Patiala	Patiala	Punjab
Auroville Botanical Gardens, Auroville	Auroville	Pondicherry
Botanic Gardens - Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore	Coimbatore	Tamil Nadu
Government Botanical Gardens, Ootacamund, Nilgiris district	Ootacamund	Tamil Nadu
The Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Coimbatore	Coimbatore	Tamil Nadu
Semmozhi Poonga, Chennai	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
Madhavaram Botanical Garden, Chennai	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
Aligarh Fort, Aligarh	AMU, Aligarh	Uttar Pradesh
Botanical Garden of India Republic, Noida	NOIDA	Uttar Pradesh
Jhansi Botanical Garden, Jhansi	Jhansi	Uttar Pradesh
Saharanpur Botanical Garden	Saharanpur	Uttar Pradesh
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Shibpur, Kolkata	Shibpur, Kolkata	West Bengal
Agri Horticultural Society of India, Alipore, Kolkata	Alipore, Kolkata	West Bengal
Garden of Medicinal Plants, North Bengal University		West Bengal
Lalbagh, Bangalore	Bangalore	Karnataka
Lloyd's Botanical Garden, Darjeeling	Darjeeling	West Bengal
Malampuzha Garden, Palakkad	Palakkad	Kerala
Mysore Zoo, Mysore	Mysore	Karnataka
Narendra Narayan Park, Cooch Behar	Cooch Behar	West Bengal
National Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden and Research Centre	Panchkula	One of the largest Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden in India, at Panchkula, Haryana.
Aquariums
Bagh-e-Bahu Aquarium    $	Jammu	Jammu and Kashmir
Bangalore Aquarium	Bangalore	Karnataka
Calcutta Aquarium	Kolkata	West Bengal
Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) Aquarium	Bhubaneswar	Odisha
Dr. A. M. Michael Aquarium, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies	Panangad, Kochi	Kerala
District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) Aquarium	Kozhikode	Kerala
Jagdishchandra Bose Aquarium	Surat	Gujarat
Jawahar Aquarium	Mussoorie	Uttarakhand
Kankaria Aquarium	Ahmedabad	Gujarat
Kollam Aquarium	Kollam	Kerala
Lal Bagh aquarium	Bangalore	Karnataka
Machhli Ghar	Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh
MARC Aquarium	Digha	West Bengal
Marine Biological Research Station	Ratnagiri	Maharashtra
Marine Life Aquarium	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
Matsyadarsini Aquarium	Visakhapatnam	Andhra Pradesh
Nandankanan Zoo Aquarium	Bhubaneswar	Odisha
Sanjay Gandhi Jaivik Udyan	Patna	Bihar
Star aquarium	Karunagappalli	Kerala
Taraporewala Aquarium	Mumbai	Maharashtra
Travancore Royal Aquarium	Trivandrum	Kerala
ICAR-NBFGR Ganga Aquarium	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh
Varkala Aquarium    $$	Trivandrum	Kerala
VGP Marine Kingdom	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
$   This 222m long aquarium inside Bahu fort, is India's largest underground aquarium.
$$  The 4 storey Aquarium is situated on the baech at Thiruvambady.ADAK built this 3500 sq.ft Aquarium.