Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

[Rishi]

(10-23-2020, 07:51 PM)Rage2277 Wrote:

(10-12-2020, 05:06 AM)KRA123 Wrote: There is something I don't understand about the way the Indian government is approaching Asiatic lion reintroduction. There are many Asiatic lions living in zoos in India, why not breed some of them in a dedicated breeding program and then release the progeny in the wild in, for example Madhya Pradesh, or elsewhere. Couldn't that bypass the Gujarat government altogether? Given the relatively high reproductive rate of lions, they could have a decent wild population outside of Gujarat by now if they had been breeding captive ones for reintroduction. If it's impossible to use lions in Indian zoos then the Indian government could request gametes from lions held in Europe or elsewhere. Once the population is large enough, they could trade with Iran - some of the lions for Asiatic cheetahs. I mean, even Iran, a whole other country and apparently the reciprocal antagonist of India in this process, has managed to get a hold of an Asiatic lion that they are going to try to breed, so can the Indian government do so as well?

quite a few lions i've seen from indian zoos look pretty inbred those from euro zoos look rather healthy and fit

I know right?.. But fact is the European population has been confirmed to be much more inbred due to limited origin stock compared to us.

Either our breeding method are incorrect & Indian zoos inbreed the animals further without proper planning, or we can just feed them less to avoid obesity. Reply