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♤ Vulture Breeding and Conservation Centre had already been established at Pinjore, Haryana in 2001, and Rani, Guwahati (Assam) and another one has been established at Buxa, West Bengal in 2005. The Central Zoo Authority of India has also committed for supporting 4 such centers in the zoos at Junagadh, Bhopal, Hyderabad and Bhubhaneshwar in 2006-07.
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) & BNHS has taken up a program to release 30 young vultures from the breeding centre’s to the demarcated safe zones at three places by year 2014.
Though the breeding facilities had started some years back, it takes time for the reproduction amongst vultures. Young vultures take at least four to five years to fly.
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India has more than 100,000 brick kilns and they are noxious sources of pollution, particularly soot.