Animal Defenders International, which is organizing the transfer, says that it will be the largest-ever operation of its kind.
Since the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that in 2013 the number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide exceeded 50m for the first time since the 1940s, and rose by 6m in 2012 largely due to Syria's civil war, a further 1m Syrians and 2m Iraqis have been added to that grim total.Dealing with Syrian refugees is now the UNHCR's largest-ever operation.
It is UNICEF's largest-ever operation to prevent malnutrition in Chad, and will last three months, from April to June 2012.
UNICEF launches its largest-ever operation against malnutrition in Chad MAO, Chad, 19 June 2012 – According to UNICEF's estimates, 127,000 children will be at risk of severe acute malnutrition, a deadly condition, in Chad this year, part of the broader food and nutrition crisis afflicting the Sahel region of Africa.
Displays include the guardhouse from Checkpoint Charlie, an RAF Hastings, as well as a section of the Berlin spy tunnel, the largest ever SIS/CIA operation.
Up above us, an Indian air force helicopter flies past in one of several hundred missions in what has been the country's largest ever rescue operation.
It is Britain's largest ever peacetime logistical operation and the Whitehall security group was set up to "ensure that all the different organisation are working seamlessly together and that their plans are all aligned".
Then, in 2001, 9/11 takes place and NATO launches into its largest ever and longest ever combat operation in Afghanistan.
In 1946-47 the U.S. military mounted Operation Highjump, the largest ever Antarctic expedition, consisting of 4,700 men and 13 ships.
"This sophisticated and commercial-scale operation is one of the largest ever prosecuted by Crown Prosecution Service London," the chief crown prosecutor, Baljit Ubhey, said.
Recently, following the terrorist attacks on 22 July 2011, the rescue operation was one of the largest ever undertaken in Norway since World War II.
