Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

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Gujarat agrees to give lion to Madhya Pradesh, now hope rests on this 

Gujarat has reneged on agreeing to give young Babbar lion (Asiatic Lion) to Madhya Pradesh. In the name of considering the consent given at the level of the officers, the action of giving lions was stopped. Now the file of giving lion to Madhya Pradesh will go to Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. They will take the final decision whether to give lions to Madhya Pradesh or not. 

The Singh project of the Government of India is in limbo due to Gujarat's attitude towards giving Babbar lions to Madhya Pradesh, so the state government had found a new way to bring lions to the state. The plan was that young lions would be brought from a zoo and kept in Van Vihar for breeding. Their cubs will be kept in the jungle environment and gradually they will be made wild. In the next phase, a protected area will be created in the state and they will be released in the open forest. For this, young lions were sought from the zoo in Gujarat.

This was under the wildlife swap scheme. The forest officials of Gujarat agreed to give the lion and after getting their consent, the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) also gave the nod. The officials and doctors of Van Vihar were about to go to Gujarat to like the lion, but on the eve of Gujarat officials told that the file will go to the Chief Minister and he will take the final decision. Usually, the decision is taken by the Chief Wildlife Custodian in a wildlife swap program.

IUCN's guide line screwed in bringing lions to Kuno

The Singh project which started 28 years ago (year 1992) at Kuno Palpur in Sheopur has been completed in the year 2003. All arrangements have been made to bring lions and keep them, for this 24 villages were shifted from Kuno Palpur, but Gujarat is not ready to give lions. Therefore, Cheetah is being settled as an alternative in Kuno Palpur, which will be brought from South Africa to Madhya Pradesh next year. After completing the lion project costing more than 200 crores, Madhya Pradesh made several attempts to get lions from Gujarat. 

The matter went to the Supreme Court and in the year 2013, the court also directed the Government of India and the Government of Gujarat to send Sher Kuno Palpur in six months, but Gujarat did not follow these instructions. Rather put the condition of the guide line of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). Madhya Pradesh has fulfilled 22 out of 35 conditions of this guide line, while 13 conditions are of log time (long time), which will be fulfilled gradually after the lion is brought in. 

Then why did Uttar Pradesh get lions?

Shahbaz Ahmed, former chief wildlife custodian of Madhya Pradesh, says that this is a monopoly of the Gujarat government. There should be no lions anywhere else in the country. If this happens, then there will be a division of tourists and the Gujarat government also sees it by connecting it with its identity. 

On the other hand, retired IFS Ramgopal Soni says that the lion is associated with the identity of Gujarat. Whoever the government may be, the people of Gujarat do not want to be angry and now the elections are about to come. In such a situation, it is not easy to take the decision to give a lion. When asked whether Gujarat has also given lions to Uttar Pradesh for Etawah safari, Soni said that they have given them for zoo and we are asking to establish a clan. Tomorrow we will be competitive. 

they say

The officials of Gujarat were ready to give the lion earlier, we were going to send the officials soon to see the lion, but now the information has come that the Chief Minister will take the final decision on this. 

Translated from google  

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