- Haryana will develop the largest jungle safari park outside Africa, the state government said. The 10,000-acre curated safari park will come up in the Aravalli range and cover parts of Gurugram and Nuh districts.
- The proposed Aravalli Park will be five times the size of the one in Sharjah and will include a large herpetarium, aviary park, four zones for big cats, an area for herbivores, an area for exotic animal birds, an underwater world, nature trails, tourism zones, botanical gardens, biomes, equatorial, tropical and coastal desert, among other zones.
- “The jungle safari project of Haryana will be a joint project of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Centre and the Haryana Government. Under the scheme, the Centre will provide funds to Haryana for this project.”
- According to the state government, as per a survey conducted a few years ago, 180 species of birds, 15 species of mammals, 29 species of aquatic animals and reptiles and 57 species of butterflies were found in the Aravalli range.
World’s largest safari park to be built in Aravalli range
