Project GIB Adds Three Chicks, Taking Captive Stock to 94 Birds: Union Minister Shri Bhupender Yadav

• Project GIB = integrated conservation-breeding programme for the Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), India's most endangered large bird, run by MoEFCC + Wildlife Institute of India (WII) + Rajasthan Forest Department.
• Captive stock has crossed 94 birds; 26 chicks hatched in the 4th year of breeding alone.
• Significance for UPSC: tests species-recovery model, intersects with renewable-energy vs biodiversity litigation (SC's M.K. Ranjitsinh case), CMS Appendix I, and Thar desert ecology.