Zoo & Wildlife
Management Systems
Animal inventory, veterinary care, patrol logging and incident reporting - one platform across web, API and mobile. Built for Nandankanan Zoological Park, the first Indian zoo to join WAZA.
- 437ha
- Park area managed
- ~250
- Enclosures
- ~200
- Species
- 1st
- Indian zoo in WAZA
Park figures per Nandankanan Zoological Park public information.
One platform, six operational modules
Delivered as an admin portal, a backend API and a mobile application - so office staff, veterinary teams and field patrols each work in the surface that suits them.
Animal Inventory Management
A single register for the living collection - acquisitions, transfers, births and deaths - replacing paper registers and disconnected spreadsheets.
- Collection records by species, enclosure and individual animal
- Acquisition, transfer, birth and mortality events with full history
- Enclosure allocation and occupancy tracking
- Structured data suitable for studbook and statutory returns
Who this is for
Institutions where operational records are still kept on paper or in spreadsheets, and where a large share of the record is generated in the field rather than at a desk.
Zoological parks & aquariums
Collection records, veterinary care, enclosure and staff management across a public-facing site.
Wildlife sanctuaries & protected areas
Patrol logging, incident reporting and beat coverage across large, low-connectivity terrain.
State forest departments
Departmental and statutory reporting drawn from operational records rather than compiled by hand.
Conservation programmes
Breeding programme records, health monitoring and evidence for accreditation or grant reporting.
How the three surfaces fit together
One shared record behind three ways of working - so field staff, veterinary teams and administrators each use the surface that suits them without the data fragmenting.
The split matters: patrol logging and incident reporting happen away from a desk, so capture sits on mobile while management and reporting sit on the portal - over one API, so there is still only one record set.
Built for how a zoological park actually runs
A working park has field staff, veterinary teams, curators and administrators - with very different needs from one system.
Field-first mobile
Patrol and incident capture designed for staff moving around a large park, not for a desk. Field data is entered where it happens, not transcribed later.
API-first architecture
A backend API underpins the admin portal and the mobile app alike, so additional surfaces and integrations can be added without rework.
Role-based access
Curatorial, veterinary, field and administrative staff each see the records their role requires - with attribution retained on every entry.
Audit trails throughout
Events, treatments and incidents retain a full history. Records are traceable to the person and time of entry, which departmental reporting depends on.
Built for public-sector delivery
Delivered for a state forest department, in the reporting and accountability context a government institution operates within.
Reporting from the record
Dashboards and periodic reports are generated from operational data itself, rather than compiled by hand from separate registers at period end.
What the reporting layer looks like
Consolidated dashboards drawn from the operational record - patrol activity, coverage, incidents and veterinary caseload in one place, rather than compiled by hand at period end.
Real dashboards are not published here. Patrol coverage and animal location data are operationally sensitive, and access in the deployed system is scoped by role.
What an engagement typically covers
Every park names things differently, works to a different structure and reports to a different authority. The modules below are what a working institution generally needs; how each behaves is shaped around your operation during the assessment, before anything is built.
Typical scope
- Animal inventory management
- Veterinary and out-patient records
- Daily patrol logging (mobile)
- Incident reporting and escalation
- Staff management and rosters
- Analytics dashboards and reporting
- Admin portal, backend API, mobile application
Shaped to your institution
- Beat, zone and enclosure structure
- Species lists and collection taxonomy
- Incident categories and escalation rules
- Roles, permissions and access scoping
- Statutory and departmental report formats
- Terminology and language
- Integrations with systems you already run
Not every institution needs every module. The assessment establishes which are worth building and in what order, so each lands useful on its own rather than everything arriving at once.
How an engagement runs
Four stages. The first produces a written roadmap you can act on whether or not you continue with us.
- 1
Assessment
A scoped review of how you record animals, patrols, veterinary care and incidents today, and where the gaps are. Produces a written module roadmap.
- 2
Module roadmap
Which modules to build and in what order, sequenced so each is useful on its own rather than everything landing at once.
- 3
Build
Admin portal, backend API and mobile application developed against your workflows, with review points as each module lands.
- 4
Handover
Staff onboarding across curatorial, veterinary, field and administrative roles, plus documentation and ongoing support.
Nandankanan Zoological Park
Odisha Forest Department, Bhubaneswar, India
Nandankanan is a 437-hectare zoological park and botanical garden with roughly 250 enclosures and around 200 species. In 2009 it became the first Indian zoo to join the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and it is the only conservation breeding centre for Indian pangolins in the world.
Read the full case studyScope delivered
- Admin portal application
- Backend API
- Mobile application
- Animal inventory management
- Veterinary and out-patient management
- Daily patrol logging
- Incident reporting
- Staff management
- Reporting and dashboards
Common questions
Request a Zoo Systems Assessment
A scoped review of how your institution records animals, patrols, veterinary care and incidents today - and a written roadmap of the modules worth building, in what order. Yours to act on either way.
Typically a 30-minute session plus a written follow-up within a week.