CZA gives nod, MP to get India’s first white tiger breeding centre | India News

BHOPAL: Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has given its green signal to India’s first white tiger breeding centre in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district, believed to be home to the last white tiger in the wild.
Centre had given in-principle approval for this project in 2011. The breeding centre will now come up in Govindgarh. The state’s lone white tiger safari is barely 10km away, in Mukundpur. The breeding centre is evidence that the MP govt remains dedicated to biodiversity conservation, said deputy CM Rajendra Shukla, adding it will boost wildlife tourism and create job opportunities for locals.
The white tiger breeding centre is part of a revised masterplan for Maharaja Martand Singh Judeo White Tiger Safari and Zoo in Mukundpur. The safari is named after the last maharaja of Rewa who found a white tiger in Govindgarh jungle in 1951, named it Mohan, and was so fascinated by it that he started a white tiger breeding and conservation programme. tnn

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