-Down to Earth Union govt was aware of high mortality even as PM Modi played up rise in count Ninety-two Asiatic Lions have died in Gujarat’s Asiatic Lion Landscape (ALL) since January 2020, according to a Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) committee report. ALL includes Gir National Park and Sanctuary and covers eight districts of Gujarat, including Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Rajkot, Gir-Somnath, Botad and Jamnagar, according to the...
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Virus, outdated census method mar Gujarat’s lion numbers -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Efficacy of vaccine for CDV not known, data unavailable An outdated methodology and the true mortality from a virus affecting India’s lions dent the credibility of the Gujarat government’s claims on its lion population. In a press statement on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted results of the 2020 Asiatic Lion Census that put the number of lions at 674, a 28% rise from...
More »450 Maldhari families living inside Gujarat's Gir sanctuary -Vijaysinh Parmar
-The Times of India Junagadh: At a time when population of Asiatic Lions is spreading outside of the Gir wildlife sanctuary into fringe areas leading to rise in man-animal conflict, hundreds of Maldharis (traditional inhabitants of Gir forest), who had moved out of the protected forest after taking benefit of government's resettlement scheme in 1980s have returned to the forest over the past two decades. The state forest department has ordered a...
More »BJP MP from Gujarat held for RTI activist's murder
-PTI CBI on Wednesday arrested BJP MP from Gujarat Dinu Bogha Solanki in connection with the murder of of RTI activist Amit Jethwa who had waged a crusade against illegal mining in Gir Forest in the state, the last home of Asiatic Lions. Solanki, Lok Sabha member from Junagarh, Gujarat, arrived at the CBI headquarters this morning and was questioned throught the day, after which a CBI team decided to place him...
More »223 lions, 193 leopards died in Gir in last four years by Roxy Gagdekar
Even as Gujarat prides itself as the only home to the Asiatic Lions in India at Gir National park, as many as 223 lions and 193 leopards have died in the sanctuary since 2006-07. The last census of lions in 2010 revealed that there were 411 lions in the Gir Sanctuary. In reply to an application filed under the Right to Information Act (RTI), the office of the chief forest conservator...
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