📍Kukrail Reserve Forest An Murban forest created in 1950s as a plantation forest, is located about 9 km northwest from Lucknow city centre in Uttar Pradesh state of India.[1] It has a captive breeding and conservation center for the freshwater gharials (gavialis gangeticus), one of the 3 native species of crocodiles in India. Young Gharial in the breeding center at Kukrail Reserve Forest. It is one of such 3 crocodile breeding centers in India. Kukrail crocodile centre and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust (breeds all 3 native crocodile species of India - freshwater muggers, freshwater gharials and salt water crocodiles) are rated as top two most success crocodile breeding centres by National Geographic Society, the third being the Crocodile Breeding Centre at Kurukshetra (breeds only freshwater muggers). (at Kukrail Crocodile Sanctuary) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck_YN2ivn-5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=