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Camera trap proves Gujarat now has tiger
By Rajat Ghai Last Updated: Tuesday 12 February 2019

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Gujarat now has the unique distinction of being home to both the Asiatic Lion as well as the Bengal Tiger after a camera-trap photographed a tiger in the Mahisagar district, in the north-eastern part of the state.

Quote:Will the presence of the tiger puncture the state’s stance against sending lions to Kuno?

Tigers were frequently seen along the hilly and forested, tribal-dominated eastern border areas of Gujarat, known as ‘Poorvi Patti’ (the eastern belt). But the last one was sighted in 1992.
On February 6, 2019, a tiger was photographed on a mobile phone, crossing a road in Lunawada taluka of Mahisagar by a school teacher, Mahesh Mahera. In the days since, it has been caught on camera traps set by wildlife officials in the area.

And while the lion and tiger in Gujarat are separated by the Gulf of Khambhat as well as the Central Gujarat plain and the expanse of Saurashtra, the discovery of the Lunawada tiger raises the question of whether the two cats can co-habit in one place together, a point raised by the Gujarat government most famously in its refusal to send Asiatic Lions to Kuno-Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, given that there were tigers there.

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