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MoEF to release 30 vultures to safe zones [1]

PANJIM: The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has taken up a program to save vultures from getting extinct. Under this program, 30 young vultures will be ready to fly by year 2014.

Dr Asad Rehmani, a senior member of National Board for Willdlife and Director of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) said that the 30 young vultures will be released from the breeding facilities to the demarcated safe zones at three places.

Publication Date: 
02/07/2012
Herald (Panjim) [2]
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Vulture [3], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [4], Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) [5], Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand) [6], Nepal [7], Corbett NP [8], Grasslands [9], Endangered Species [10], Wildlife [11], Goa [12]
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