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Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

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09-13-2016, 01:59 AM

Today asiatic lions are basically semi-wild felids. Maybe reintroducing asiatic lions from zoos into the wild (after proper training) would not be that different from relocation of gir lions. I think that it could be theoretically possible in Turkey. Quite big country with lot of free space...but ofc something like this is practically impossible. i have been to eastern Turkey couple of years ago...very nice country (with really very nice people - Im strongly against islamophobia, by the way), but local people told me that there are not any big animals any more. The country is empty. And dry. The intensity of rains has decreased considerabely over last decades. Another factor is political instability of that region. Maybe some unpopulated turkish or greek island could be a place for some interesing experiment...

Similar case is Iran...and I think that priority for Iran is the reintroducion of caspian (amur) tiger. And even this is probably impossible.

Big cats have nowhere to go.

BTW even in Czech repupublic (1/3 of the country is covered by forest) there is a big problem with the reintroduction of lynx and wolf. Hunters dont want them - they are competitors.
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