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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

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70 Captive-bred Houbara Released in the Western Region
As part of Abu Dhabi’s efforts to protect Houbara bustards and its comprehensive global strategy of producing over 50,000 houbara bustards to increase the bird’s population in their natural habitats in its geographic distribution in Asia and North Africa, 70 captive-bred Houbara bustards produced at the National Avian Research Centre (NARC) of the International Fund for Houbara Conservation were released today by H.H Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan released in the Western region of Abu Dhabi Emirate.