Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

[Rishi]

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(08-18-2017, 08:30 AM)Wolverine Wrote: Thank you for your informative answer Rishi! So you think there is no potential habitat for lions outside Khatiawar peninsula? What about Rann of Kutch, maybe local 4000 strong Indian wild ass population could feed several lion prides?

Correction...We have about 5000 of them (4800 & increasing, as of 2015).

Anyways, the sites i'd identified HERE are as good a potential (& past) lion habitat as any. Better than where they live now.

This is a population distribution map of the state of Gujarat... 

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Now, that^^ shows that the lions have been avoiding the  more developed townships & preferring the agro-pastoral areas...despite the latter having a higher number of people scattered all over the countryside. 
The landuse pattern & availablity of natural patches seems to have a greater effect than the population density!

They'll reach Rann-of-Kutchh, with time, hopefully through the scrublands east of Rajkot (marked 26). But further eastwards into India...i doubt it.
The region in between is the largest industrial belt of India. 

So, if we want lions out of Kathiawar, they need to be artificially relocated. Reply