India, May 7 -- PUNE Rescued from illegal captivity in Ahmednagar district around the middle of April 2025 by the forest department, an injured and severely malnourished rose-ringed parakeet was admitted to the Transit Treatment Centre (TTC) in Bavdhan, Pune, where the bird got a fresh lease of life following a rare procedure to fit a prosthetic upper beak to it. The parakeet, listed under the schedule 4 category of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, is currently undergoing a recovery programme at the centre and based on its overall recovery, plans are afoot to release it into its natural habitat after discussions with the forest department, a senior representative of the RESQ Charitable Trust informed.

RESQ Charitable Trust, an NGO partn...