Haryana to develop world's largest safari, park to cover 10,000 acres

Haryana will develop the world's largest jungle safari park in the Aravalli range, the state government said in a statement on Thursday.

The 10,000-acre safari park will cover Gurugram and Nuh districts.

"This project will be the largest such project in the world," it said.

At present, Sharjah is home to the largest curated safari park outside Africa. Opened in February 2022, the Sharjah Safari covers an area of about 2,000 acres.

"The proposed Aravalli park would be five times more this size and it would include a large herpetarium (a zoological exhibition space for reptiles and amphibians), aviary/bird park, four zones for big cats, a large area for herbivores, an area for exotic animal birds, an underwater world, nature trails, visitors, tourism zones, botanical gardens, biomes, equatorial, tropical, coastal, desert, etc," the government said in the statement.

Union Minister for Forest, Environment and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khatta