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New Delhi: Delhi is likely to get its first wild animal rescue centre by the end of the year, Forest department officials said on Wednesday. The facility will come up on a 1.24-acre plot in Rajokri where a monkey rescue centre is lying abandoned, they said. The animal rescue centre will come up in place of a proposed facility for birds. Approval of the Ridge Management Board was needed to "broaden" the proposal of a wild bird rescue centre to a wild animal rescue centre. The wild animal rescue centre will also be used for treating birds, he said..