Mumbai: A mummified bird, part of a spectacular exhibition mounted at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in conjunction with the British Museum earlier this year, will finally be allowed to leave the country in the next few days, nearly eight months after the rest of the exhibition moved to Singapore.
The exhibition titled 'Mummy: The Inside Story', which cost Rs 3 crore and saw over 3.2 lakh footfalls, concluded on March 24, but the mummified bird, an Ibis, was not allowed to leave the country with the other exhibits as it did not have a CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) certificate.
So, while the other 110 objects, including human mummies, were sent by air to Singapore, the Ibis mummy was sealed and stored in the museum at Fort.
The Ibis is an endangered bird and was last spotted in 1891. As per international protocol governing transport of endangered species, all import, export, re-export and introduction of such articles requires CITES approval. Though the Ibis displayed at the exhibition was mummified 3000 years ago, the stringent CITES protocol put it in the 'endangered species' category.
20/11/13 Reema Gehi & Bipin Kumar Singh/Mumbai Mirror
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The exhibition titled 'Mummy: The Inside Story', which cost Rs 3 crore and saw over 3.2 lakh footfalls, concluded on March 24, but the mummified bird, an Ibis, was not allowed to leave the country with the other exhibits as it did not have a CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) certificate.
So, while the other 110 objects, including human mummies, were sent by air to Singapore, the Ibis mummy was sealed and stored in the museum at Fort.
The Ibis is an endangered bird and was last spotted in 1891. As per international protocol governing transport of endangered species, all import, export, re-export and introduction of such articles requires CITES approval. Though the Ibis displayed at the exhibition was mummified 3000 years ago, the stringent CITES protocol put it in the 'endangered species' category.
20/11/13 Reema Gehi & Bipin Kumar Singh/Mumbai Mirror
