Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

[paul cooper]

(12-09-2017, 09:33 AM)Wolverine Wrote:

(12-07-2017, 01:59 PM)Rishi Wrote:
4. It's about connecting the whole "Western India Tiger Landscape" to rest of Central-India. 

1. I afraid there is nothing to connect.... because there are almost no tigers left in Rajastan... Kuno wildlife sanctuary is situated in the very west border of Madhua Pradesh with Rajastan. How many tigers inhabit Rajastan? Several dozens, probably a miserable 2% of total tiger population in India. So basically you want to connect something with nothing...

2. I am inclined to think that Western India and more especially Rajastan has been originally not tiger but "lion landscape"... Tigers are there because lions have been exterminated by humans during the last half millennia (for multiply reasons lions are much easier to be hunted down than tigers). Tigers like dense lush forest, lions like open savanna-like landscape. All deserted and semi-deserted Indian state of Rajastan and in generall all vast dry plains of India on North-West from Gwallior in MP look like perfect lion landscape and were densily populated by lions in the ancient times. I visited briefly as a tourist both Ranthambore and Gir forest back in the 90-s. Yes, the stipe slopes around the entrance of Ranthambore are covered by dense lush forest, a perfect tiger country, but as you start move further and deeper inside the park beside the lake, landscape become drier and drier, colours totally yellow, landscape become almost semi-arid. Huge parts of Ranthambore are actually covered by open savanna-like vegetation, a perfect lion-country. I saw more green vegetation in Gir forest during April than in Ranthambore in December.... I have big suspicion than in ancient times Ranthambore has been inhabited by lions, not by tigers. Yes, we know that in 18th and 19th centuries the tigers were already in Rajastan because we have old Rajput paintings showing tiger hunt by Rajput royalty. But if you return not 200 but much earlier - 500 or 800 years ago I guess you will find lions even in Ranthambore. When the lions were exterminated by humans tigers moved in the free territories. Tigers unlike lions are secretive, solitary, less noisy animals and were much more difficult to be hunted.

3. So Rishi, what do you offer - lions once inhabiting huge parts of Asia to remain forever stucked and blocked in the Kathiawar peninsula in Gujarat because of the selfishness and blindness of the group of Medieval people? Very gloomy prospective.

1. In that case you will make the tigers ****ed up too.

2. Ranthambore is a bit Savannah like indeed. But that doesnt mean lions used to live there, and it doesnt mean that tigers arent/werent/didnt live there before. Tigers live in a variety of habitats. And there are even minor differences between bengal tigers throughout all of india. So lets kill all the tigers with guns in ranthambore just to desperately put lions there cmon what are you waiting for?

3. There are already tigers there, and will always be running around there. So idk what you are thinking lol Reply