Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

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Better home for Lions Required

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Raj Express - January 11, 2019
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh's Forest Minister Umang Singhar has pledged to bring lions (Panthera leo leo) in the Kuno-Palpur National Park. The initiative to bring lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh has been done for years but success has not been achieved yet. Even though the lions are getting care and facilities in Gujarat, but Kuno Palpur of Madhya Pradesh has also been fully prepared to do the same purpose and welcome the endangered lions.

Thanks to the newly elected Forest Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Umang Singar. He has conveyed the determination to bring Lion from Gujarat to Kuno-Palpur National Park in Madhya Pradesh. At the end of the twentieth century, wild zoologists had realised that centralization of rare species such as Asiatic lions in the same place in Gujarat's Gir reserve is not well. They can be victims of any infectious disease or epidemic in coming future leading their extinction from face of the earth.

Accordingly, the identification of the Kuno-Palpur Protected Area of Sheopur district was made as consensus by alternate accommodation. There they have their most appropriate safe habit and hunting (prey-base) available. Now it has been expanded and given the status of National Park. But Gujarat had denounced the lions as the symbol of Asmita , saying that it will not give even a single Lion's hair .

Quote:Vanraj (Lion) seems to have lost or defeated in the game in front of this Rajhath (politics). In response to the question of Kirtivardhan Singh in the Lok Sabha, the central government admitted that 37 lions died in the period of September-December, 1918 in Gir.

The reason for the death of lions is given as the Canine Distemper Virus and babesiosis Protozoa Infection:

Vanraj's (King of the jungle) title was in vain for Singh (lion). What is the status of lion in front of Rajhath (politics)...?

Quote:In the first assembly, it was reported in the Gujarat Assembly that 184 Singhs (lions) have died in the two years of 2016 and 2017.

The future of lions expressed by wildlife experts have been proved right after twenty five years. But is it still Gujarat? The Supreme Court has decided in favor of transfer. But Gujarat probably feels that the lion is its identity and giving it to another state is to affect the identity and one of the source of income of Gujarat.

Swaps of natural resources continue on the indigenous and foreign levels.

Quote:In the year 1930, the Duke of Bedford of Britain had demanded a deer named Hangul from Kashmir and in return gave trout fish, which is still there.

Quote:Madhya Pradesh's Narmada river quenches thirst for Gujarat (dry state) in Kutch and Gujarat's milk is drunk in all the country. Gujarat state is benefitting from other states in all aspects but still it's selfish to give lions because it had become a matter of pride (i don't think it is about pride) and money...

There is no tiger in Gujarat. They can take some tiger couples and can give us the lion instead. The Supreme Court has clearly said that Singh (lion) is India's identity and not a particular state and it is clearly amended in Constitution of India. A few days ago, the US had told that there are Barasingha (12 horned antelope or Swamp deer) in Madhya Pradesh. America offered royalty and designation to this region for its protection by treating this state as the original source of this rare species and saving the natural heritage.

The ownership of the state of Gujarat is not new to the lions. In the middle of the 20th century, till independence, there were both lions and tigers in many indigenous princely states.
In the reign of Baroda King Sayajirao III, then the eastern part of present Gir forest was in the same state. In the year 1931, during the reign of King Krishna Singh of Bhavnagar, Ghumantu Singh started going round the princely state. The ancient princely state of Junagadh had only thirty lions in 1891, the infamous Chappanas of 1899-1901, in the famine, the lions had started hunting the human being.

This was the time when the then Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, had advised the conservation of this species by rejecting the hunting invitation of Junagadh's Nawab, the victim of lions. Since many princely states such as Baroda, Bilkha, Jetpur etc..., were all around Junagadh principality, so it was natural for the lions to go to these areas.

Quote: At that time the Baroda kings used to lay down goats and goats on the border to attract the lions of Junagadh and beat Junagadh drums and then dispersed them again.

At the same time, Bikaner Naresh Gangasinh expressed his desire to meet Junagadh Nawab Mahavat Khan in connection with the lions. The Nawab's ownership spirit on the lions was so strong that he refused to meet. In 1904, Lord Curzon, Gwalior, came to the King on the invitation of Madhavrao Scindia. Then he suggested in the context of forests of Kuno-Palpur, that some Singhs (lions) from Junagadh should be left here. The Gwalior-King tried. Lord Curzon had also recommended, but the Nawab of Junagadh did not agree with Tas.

Even today, Gujarat has been avoiding such lacuna in giving lion to Madhya Pradesh. Is Gujarat's proprietary sense of lions in today's present-day Federalist Democratic India as it exists?  Maharaj Kumar Ranjit Singhji of Bankankar Raj Bhavan in Gujarat has been in many senior positions including Chief Secretary Forest in Madhya Pradesh. His book 'A Life With Wild Life' has just been published recently.

In March last year, he was in Bhopal. He then told his father, Bankankar Naresh, that when the Junagadh Nawab was going to Pakistan by running under the influence of his Diwan Shahnawaz Bhutto (father of former Prime Minister of Pakistan) Bhutto, flying over the Gir and Girnar, he filled his eyes with tears "What would happen to my lions?"

In reality: Although Gujarat has preserved these Singhs very gloriously but due to the traditional ownership spirit, Madhya Pradesh is unable to find the lion, though there is a crisis on them. Therefore, now it is necessary to think in this direction so that the ending crisis (extinction) of this creature can be avoided.

MD Chaturvedi, the first Inspector General of India, wrote in one of his book 'Singh Parivar' that the Gwalior king had deserted Junagadh and left the countryside with lions and left it here. Under the leadership of a specialist DM network, he opened the Singh Mohalla in 1905 and also kept a one lakh rupees budget. The lions also breed, but in those days neither the GPS, neither the modern camera nor the hunting was restricted.

So these Singh went out of the princely state and were killed. Remember that this project of Gwalior-Naresh was taken care of by his hunting advocate, James Adam. It was a coincidence that his son, George Adamson, had lost his life in the preservation of lions in Africa with his wife Jaayy. Born Free, a book written on lions, is a witness to his conservation campaign. Then did Junior Adamson get the privilege of lion protection living in Gwalior with his father?

Whatever state is going on between the lions in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, but problems related to them can be solved easily. Today's visionary statesman like Mrs. Anandiben Patel is the Governor of Madhya Pradesh. They, both Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, are capable and capable in full form. We should take advantage of their merit and find solutions to rescue fallen lions. Madhya Pradesh has been demanding lions from Gujarat for a long time.

Quote:If the side of Madhya Pradesh is seen, the protection of lions lies in its demand. They will stay in Kuno-Palpur National Park of the state, they will be better. Neglecting Lions is not something to ignore Gujarat. They must understand this thing.

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