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Opened in 1971, Jurong
Bird Park is the largest bird park in the world, offering a 20.2-hectare
hillside haven for 8,000 birds representing 600 species. Its Heliconia
Repository, with 108 heliconia species and cultivars in its collection,
is one of the largest in the region. With key attractions such as the
Bird Discovery Centre, African Waterfall Aviary, Lory Loft Aviary,
Southeast Asian Birds Aviary and the award-winning African Wetlands, the
Bird Park attracted close to 900,000 visitors in 2009.
Committed
towards conservation, the Bird Park is the first in the world to breed
the Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise in captivity and received the
Breeders’ Award from the American Pheasant and Waterfowl Society in
2001. In 2006, the Bird Park became the recipient of the Conservation
& Research Award for the Oriental Pied Hornbill Conservation Project
by IV International Symposium on Breeding Birds in Captivity (ISBBC).
In Asia, Jurong Bird Park is the only park in the Asia Pacific to have
an Avian Hospital. It has a Breeding and Research Centre tasked to
ensure the welfare, breeding and promulgation of birdlife and is also an
Official Rescue Avian Centre.
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