New Delhi, March 28 -- Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Saturday announced a significant milestone in the conservation of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB) with the birth of a chick after a decade, in Kutch using a novel conservation measure known as the "jumpstart approach."Planned a year back, the effort was coordinated by the MoEFCC along with the State Forest Departments of Rajasthan and Gujarat and the Wildlife Institute of India, this is the first inter-state jump start initiative of the GIB in the country that was successfully executed in Gujarat, according to officials.
So this is how it happened- a female GIB tagged in August 2025 laid an infertile egg in Kutch, where the local population had lost all its...