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Gujarat’s jungles to get back near-extinct bird red fowl

According to the forest department, six pairs of red jungle fowl were kept for captive breeding in 2020-21

Gujarat’s jungles to get back near-extinct bird red fowl
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Gujarat’s jungles will be reintroduced to the near-extinct feathered friend, the red jungle fowl. Subjected to human cupidity, both in terms of its narrowing habitats and rampant poaching, the bird species nearly vanished from the state.

However, thanks to the successful conservation programme by Sakkarbaug zoo in Junagadh, 100 chicks of the fowl have been successfully hatched in captive breeding, which are proposed to be freed in their natural habitats once again.

According to the forest department, six pairs of red jungle fowl were kept for captive breeding in 2020-21.

This produced F-1 generation of 50 chicks in 2021-22. In the past two years, the fowl population rose to 100 chicks from the programme conceived in 2017 and finally delivered 2020-21.

The zoo gave around 25 birds to the forest officials of Banaskantha to release them into the wild, where they seen in the past. It has also asked for a report on the successful breeding of the fowls in nature after release.

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