Mini Zoo & Black Buck Breeding Centre, Pipli

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Mini Zoo,Pipli
Coordinates: 29°59′08″N76°53′37″E / 29.98556°N 76.89361°E / 29.98556; 76.89361 Coordinates: 29°59′08″N76°53′37″E / 29.98556°N 76.89361°E / 29.98556; 76.89361
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State Haryana
District Kurukshetra district
Government
  Type Government of Haryana
  Body Forests Department, Haryana
Languages
  Official Hindi
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Website www.haryanaforest.gov.in

The Mini Zoo is located on Grand Trunk Road near Pipli bus stand in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.

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Description

Spread over 27 acres of land along the National Highway-1 in Kurukshetra, Pipli zoo is one of the three maintained zoos of the state wildlife department. The other two are in Rohtak and Bhiwani. The zoo has the following animals: [1]

Riverfont

Pipli Sarasvati Riverfont is being developed are a riverfront. In 2021, Haryana Sarasvati Heritage Development Board initiated projects to develop 5 river fronts under the under Sarasvatio Revival Project on the rejuvenated Sarasvati river at Pipli, Pehowa, Bilaspur, Dosarka (on Panchkula-Yamunanagar NH-344 near Sirsgarh) and the Theh Polar (near Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilisation archaeological site on Kaithal-Guhla SH-11). Pipli riverfront will be on the pattern Sabarmati Riverfront. [6]

It is one of the important tirtha in the 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra.

Representative album of types of animals and birds found in this zoo.

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