Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

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Sanju

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03-02-2019, 03:44 PM

@Siegfried

As you know that, Gujarat govt always opposed translocation (you know why) and these days they not even atleast remember that they even had assigned a PROJECT and responsibility is on them too to complete a project as fast as possible as per Supreme court ORDER and guidelines of 2013's decision. If anyone, opposes or halts SC's decision they might had punished by now but you know politics.

The last time they (Gujarat govt) concerned or talked about Translocation is last year, during CDV issue i.e...,

Current BJP Party Gujarat Chief Minister (CM) VIJAY RUPANI said "No Lions will be relocated outside State. Situation is under Control".

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After that Gujarat govt started investing lots of money on Lion conservation to suppress "Translocation issue".

But now due to elections in Madhya Pradesh, there is a change in power i.e.. the Congress govt came to rule after winning majority. Previously, BJP party is in the Center, and both states, So everything went on their favour.

So, after Congress govt coming into Power with "Kamal Nath" as CM. There have been significant pace in the Project which is currently in Phase 2 of "Shifting". Right after, taking oath as CM, they declared Kuno as National Park increasing area as much as more than double now. Along with them, MOEFCC, WII, NTCA and some wildlife activists and Experts doing field research time to time are strongly recommending to relocate as it is already becoming more than late.

MP govt is made sure that all arrangements and conditions are met correctly in perfection, so that there will no objection in further from Gujarat govt.

Also, like Rishi said, Gujarat is dragging the project to halt by hurdling in those 38 IUCN studies to be completed which takes long time for some "11" of those remaining to be done and most of them are "completed" and neither IUCN nor SC opposed or said those are "must" to be done before or during Project and for that SC said to shift "within 6 months" after decisive order.

For that, No such "38 STUDIES OF IUCN are done in "BARDA" but govt like to and preparing to translocate lions there coz it is "in their state".

After exhausting its legal options, Gujarat insisted on completing over 30 studies as per the relocation guideline of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) before releasing lions. While the IUCN "suggests" the studies, these are not mandatory pre-conditions for relocation.

Even as the expert committee held its first meeting, Gujarat filed a review petition which was dismissed in October 2013. The state went ahead with a curative petition which was also rejected by the Supreme Court in August 2014.

In fact, records show all members of the expert committee, except the representative of the Gujarat forest department, held that certain studies could continue in parallel to the process of translocation of lions. But Gujarat refused to budge. The Environment ministry also got cold feet. At its sixth meeting on December 19, 2016, the SC-appointed expert committee observed that Kuno was ready to receive lions, asked Madhya Pradesh to notify the sanctuary as a national park with additional areas, and told the WII to put in place the details of a MoU among the centre and the two states concerned.

In June 2017, the WII prepared the draft for the MoU but it is yet to be signed. In November 2017, the notice for the seventh meeting of the expert committee was circulated by the Environment ministry. It was then cancelled and never held again. Madhya Pradesh, on its part, delayed notifying Kuno as a national park. “We are in the process of finalising the notification. Lions are our priority for Kuno. Only last month, we had a meeting with the Gujarat state committee. They insisted on a number of studies before the relocation. The WII is trying to resolve that issue,” said Manoj Kumar Sapra, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Madhya Pradesh.

next is in previous posts, I suggested i.e.., MP CM asking PM or former Gujarat CM Modi to help in getting lions from Gujarat.

and Continuing the works to make Kuno beter and better and better and better by displacing even more villages from Kuno, increasing Prey base, developing grasslands etc.., Similar things too are happening but at much faster rate in Cheetah relocation to Nauradehi.