Gujarat welcomed its first great Indian bustard chick after a decade of experimentation, the Union Environment Ministry announced on March 28. Programmes to revive the dwindling population of the great Indian bustard have raced against time, particularly in Gujarat where three lone female birds were left in the wild.
Birthing the chick in Kachchh was made possible through what the government has called a “jumpstart approach” to conservation: a captive, incubated egg from Rajasthan’s GIB conservation breeding centre was transported over 770 kilometres to Gujarat, where it was nested by a female GIB in the wild.
The female had laid an infertile egg in August 2025, in the absence of a male counterpart. The infertile egg which was replaced by the incubated egg on March 22, and hatched on March 26.
The attempt was successful after several years of negotiations between both states. Transporting the egg made way for a halt-free corridor between Sam in Rajasthan and Naliya in Gujarat. In a press release, the government said the effort was a year in the making, and included guidance from the Wildlife Institute of India, apart from coordination between the state wildlife authorities and the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.
Minister Bhupendra Yadav congratulated all the scientists involved in...
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