India, Aug. 30 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in the process of developing a bird park in Mulund that will house exotic species from across the world in enclosures that replicate their native habitats. Once completed, the park - including an interactive facility for awareness programmes, an in-house hospital and a quarantine centre - will serve as a sub-centre to the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo in Byculla.

"Mumbai will be getting a new aviary in Mulund after 110 years," said BJP leader and Mulund MLA Mihir Kotecha, who was closely involved in pushing the project ahead. "The British had established the first zoo in the city over a century ago. This will be the first bird park to be set up in the ci...