Mumbai plans worlds biggest aviary

September 14, 2011 16:19

In the Times, London.

It is one of the world's oldest religions, a faith first set down by the Iranian Prophet Zoroaster whose followers still observe "sky burials" in which corpses are fed to birds.

Now Zoroastrians in Mumbai are planning to build the biggest aviary in the world, in a drive to increase the number of sky burials in the city where it is believed that pollution has ravaged the population of wild vultures upon which it has relied for centuries.

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