14 June: Haryana is the first state in the country to have set up a Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said.Spread over an area of five acres at Pinjore, the Centre established in 2001, has 124 vultures of white-backed, long-billed and slender-billed varieties, Hooda told a visiting delegation of photographers and journalists of Asian Geographic Magazine in Chandigarh on Saturday.A joint project of Bombay Natural History Society and Haryana Forest Department, it was not only the first but also the largest breeding centre of vultures in the country, Hooda told the delegation led by the magazine’s Photo Editor Kris LeBoutiller and publisher John Thet.
The two other vulture breeding centres apart from the one in Haryana are situated in West Bengal and Assam which have 50 and 14 vulture respectively, he said. Courtsey : DD NEWS