Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

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(02-04-2017, 12:56 PM)Wolverine Wrote: I am planning to write an letter to the prime minister of Madhya Pradesh and to give him an idea to steal some lions from Gujarat and bring them in Kuno... The code name of the secret operation propose to be "The Night of the Long Cages"... MP motorised forces should enter Gujarati territory under cover of night, catch a dozen of lions and bring them before sunrise in Kuno!
With shauvinists-idiots you cant deal in other way. I think that Prime minister of MP is already so desparate that he himself is already in the bring of such ideas.

U do understand dat they are part of same country, MP have neither "motorised forces" nor a Prime Minister (Provincial heads r called Chief Min.)..One order from Supreme Court is all it will need..
Itz happening, slowly but steadily, READ d latest news 4m last Dec. 

Quote:Experts to visit Kuno-Palpur for assessing MP’s claims
Himanshu Kaushik| TNN | Updated: Dec 14, 2016, 10.19 AM IST

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The move to visit Kuno-Palpur is being viewed as a step further towards finalizing the translocation after a Gir

AHMEDABAD: Crucial meetings on lion translocation are going to be held on December 17 and 18 at Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh. This is the first time that the 12-member committee is holding its meeting outside Delhi to ascertain the preparedness of MP for lion translocation.

The committee will inspect the site and assess the claims of Madhya Pradesh about its prey base. The state has declared 700 sq km as a protected area.

Sources said that the prey base, which was presented before the court in 2013, was nearly 350 sq km, which is the core sanctuary area. However, the committee for the first time will move in the 700 sq km area and will check the prey base.

The move to visit Kuno-Palpur is being viewed as a step further towards finalizing the translocation after a Gujarat official and now PCCF, J A Khan, went on record saying that they were open for translocation. The officials further said that this is also a golden chance for Gujarat officials to examine the area closely and raise fresh objections.

The apex court had in 2013 formed an expert group to oversee the translocation of lions to Kuno-Palpur from Gir. There are 523 lions in Gujarat as per May 2015 census.
Sources said that during several meetings of the core group, Gujarat had raised objections that 350 sq km area was too small to translocate the lions and should be increased. The core group in its report accepted the argument of the Gujarat government and pointed out that the sanctuary area was insufficient for the lions. 

MP wants lions for tourism, according to Gujarat officials and not for conservation.Himanshu Kaushik

The officials said that Gujarat should now demand a prey base study in the entire 700 sq km area. There are several studies which have to be undertaken before translocation as per the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but some the expert committee members are against the study.

According to the officials, disregarding the guidelines set by the IUCN will amount to violation of the apex court order which had clearly stated that the translocation has to be carried within the guidelines of IUCN. The environment and forest ministry, in a response in Lok Sabha, had said that the matter of relocating lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh was a "long-term action", starting from preparing the translocation area in Madhya Pradesh to identifying the lions in Gujarat. The whole programme encompasses action for over 25 years.

Gujarat WILL resist in every possible manner... legally, politically.

As u read above, now they are now using IUCN's technical specifications in their favour, & with this kinda perseverance...I doubt they'll lose.

That's how personal it has gotten!!!
After all, they are the only people in the world who lose half their cattle to lions, yet appreciate their presence & their man-lion relationship is has no equal in d World.

However, this side has their strengths too...MP Forest Dept. successfully taught orphaned tiger cubs to hunt by keeping them in semi-wild, she's a successful mother now!!!..

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The Story of How the Orphaned Tigress of Bandhavgarh Was Rehabilitated
BY PUSHP JAIN ON 08/10/2016 •

The tigress has empowered forest officials to continue with their relocation experiments without worrying about a failure here or there. Why? Because the end result is wonderful.

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The Churna tigress as cub with mother and a male cub before being orphaned, 2010. Source: Muffi/Sarath C.R. Blog

The tiger’s charisma is beyond debate. Wildlife tourism in the country has been on the rise, and visitors at reserves and ‘tiger parks’ have often been content to have a glimpse of this majestic animal. I myself had occasion in June this year when I visited the Churna range of the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh and saw a tigress with three cubs.
It was hot, and the tigress had taken to a small pool of water sheltered by a huge rock at about 10 am. She was cool, calm and relaxed. The two female cubs were hiding in some undergrowth some 150 metres away but within the mother’s sights. Clearly, they were nervous and avoided visitors. They growled and made mock charge if we approached. The head mahawatmonitoring the family told me, “The third male cub is getting more and more independent. It hangs around within the radius of about a kilometre from the family, joining them now and again.”
So it came as an immense shock, even to the extent of sounding incredible, when I learnt the history of this tigress. She was from the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in the same state. She’d become orphaned when she was only four months old – barely old enough to eat raw meat, let alone hunt. Then, she’d been reared in an enclosure in semi-wild conditions, with some human support. At the age of four years, she was relocated to the Satpura Tiger Reserve and finally released into the wild, in the completely free conditions in Churna. Of course, she was being monitored around the clock.
In May 2010, her mother died in Bandhavgarh after she was reportedly hit by a jeep, leaving the tigress and her two male siblings, each around as old as her – no more than five months of age – to fend for themselves. The forest department had then erected a crude enclosure in a rush for these cubs. Sadly, before they could complete it, one male cub became poached by a male tiger. The remaining two cubs then hid in a deep and narrow cave and bereft of food or care for many days. They didn’t dare venture out. And when they were finally found and rescued, they were unable to stand, being inches from death.
Many conservationists and naturalists have been eager to write off such cubs. “We lost a beautiful tigress in Bandhavgarh and the double tragedy is that she has three lovely cubs. So we have effectively lost four wild tigers,” wrote the naturalist Sarth C.R. on his blog.
Better care and effort by a veterinary specialist and the field staff revived the cubs. After that, sensitive attention together with helping the cubs learn from experience and experimenting with various aspects of rearing cubs (what kind of enclosure to make, how much human involvement to permit, what kind of medicine to give, what food to feed, etc.) proved successful.
On June 6, 2014, at the Tala range of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, the principle chief conservator of forests (PCCF), the field director, the deputy director, a veterinary doctor from Bandhavgarh and the assistant conservator of forests (ACF) of Satpura were ready to help the orphaned tigress relocate from Bandhavgarh to Satpura. There had been relocations of tigers in India before that; nonetheless, they were tense because, after all, a tiger was involved. There was risk. Foresters often feel that there are few to appreciate their efforts when they get something right but many to criticise them when something goes wrong – even if despite their best efforts.
A team of doctors and some officials entered the Jhurjhura enclosure and located the tigress. She’d been tranquilised. After a routine health check, a radio collar is affixed around her neck – the device will be used for keeping an eye on her movements later – and she is placed in the cage she is going to be moved in. By 7.30 pm, the tigress is awake and well on her way to her new home, the amazingly rich Satpura reserve. At Satpura, the stage is all set. The tigress arrived at 12.10 pm and was assigned to the RF 197 plot of the Churna range. When the gate of the cage was lifted open, the tigress bounds out, completely free and ready to live a truly wild life. The tension is defused in seconds, after which there is only an eerie silence.

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The tigress snarls. Credit: Pusha Jain

In February 2015, the tigress delivered a litter. Today, this family is a bright ray of hope at the Satpura Tiger Reserve. It can add many more tigers to the reserve if all goes well. Indeed, Satpura needs it...........(deleted some additional crap)

if u wanna write a letter, then request Madhya Pradesh CM to consider rewilding of zoo-bred cubs. We hold some fantastic specimens in our zoos... #228  Reply