Crocodile Pilpil on Friday laid 44 eggs at the Karamjal Wildlife Breeding Centre in the Chandpai Range of the Eastern Sundarbans. On Friday Pilpil laid eggs beside the pond of the breeding centre.
Of the 44 eggs, 21 were kept in Pilpil’s own cage for them to hatch naturally.12 were kept in the old incubator and 11 in the new incubator. Officials at the breeding centre hope that the eggs will hatch within 85 to 90 days.
Earlier on May 29, another crocodile Juliet laid 52 eggs. Which is now waiting for the baby to hatch. Before that, on May 9, 2019, Juliet laid 44 eggs. From which no child was found.
Pilpil has been regularly laying eggs at this breeding center since 2010. However, Azad Kabir, the officer-in-charge of Karamjal Wildlife Breeding Center, said that no eggs have hatched in the last three years.
He told the media, “Pilpil 44 eggs in her cage on Friday. The eggs are divided into three parts. This time I am taking the help of natural ways, conventional incubators and self-made incubators. Every effort is being made to get the baby from the egg. Because crocodiles have not been born here for the last three years. I hope I will get a good result this time.”
The Karamjal Wildlife Breeding Centre, country’s only crocodile breeding facility, started its journey in 2002, for the reproduction and preservation of near-extinct saltwater crocodiles.
Under the government’s biodiversity conservation project, the facility was established on eight acres which had cost Tk32 lakh.
Initially, the facility began its activities by bringing in crocodiles accidentally caught in fishermen’s nets. Currently, there are a total of 195 crocodiles, including adults and cubs, at the Karamjal Wildlife Breeding Centre.