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(02-26-2019, 11:24 AM)Sanju Wrote: Kuno is approved as Lion reserve and ready to recieve Lions, CM writes to PM

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Quote:Cheetah going to be welcomed in Nauradehi WLS and Kuno NP ready for the Asiatic lions
Chief Minister Kamal Nath urges Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give approval and intervene in this matter and direct them to send Gir Lion in Palpur

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Madhya Pradesh can once again going to become cheetah's Kingdom. The Cheetah was extinct 72 years ago from the state.

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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath with Prime Minister Narendra Modi (File photo)

CM Kamal Nath has resumed his efforts to bring the Lion to Madhya Pradesh from Gujarat.

National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) is once again preparing to settle cheetah here. This is the reason why the NTCA implementing Supreme Court orders  to transfer the Cheetah of Namibia by selecting Nauradehi for it.

Madhya Pradesh forest department had notified Kuno as a ‘national park’ in compliance with the last condition imposed by a Supreme Court-appointed committee for ‘translocation of Asiatic lions from Gir in Gujarat.’

The notification was published on December 14, minutes after Congress announced Kamal Nath as the new chief minister of the state. Nath had promised officials to take up the matter towards a logical conclusion. Shivraj never spoke on this issue publicly considering Modi’s possessiveness for Gir lions.

On the other hand, after the change of government in the state, preparations for the renewal of the Lion in Palpur National Park have been started. Writing a letter to give permission for transferring lions to Madhya Pradesh, the ball has been thrown in the court of the central government.

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At the sixth meeting of the expert committee on translocation of Asiatic lions, the MP government was asked to notify the area by February 2017, but competent authorities kept it pending knowing the then government’s stand on the subject, said sources.

In January 2017, Gujarat’s forest department had placed its objections before the 12-member committee and demanded that 36 studies be completed before the endangered Gir lions can be transferred to MP.

Issues like prey base, habitat, vegetation and weather are said to be conducive for shifting the lions to Kuno sanctuary. The MP forest department had promised to complete all formal processes of declaring Kuno as a ‘national park’ by the end of February. The expert committee had visited Kuno in December 2017.

After spending nearly five hours at the sanctuary, the panel members had found the atmosphere in Kuno-Palpur suitable for shifting of lions. Gujarat, too, could not question much on MP’s preparedness to host the lions, sources said. While MP won the eight-year-long legal battle with Gujarat in 2013, the latter had been dilly-dallying on compliance.

MP government circles had gone to the extent of suggesting that they were not averse to retaining the tag of ‘Gir' or ‘Gujarat' to identify the relocated lions at their new home in Kuno-Palpur.
If everything goes fine then the wildlife lovers of the state can get double happiness soon along with Cheetah.

In fact, there has been a long dispute between the two states for bringing the Lions to Madhya Pradesh from the Gir Sanctuary located in Gujarat. After going to the Supreme Court and ordering the transfer of lions, the Gujarat government imposed restrictions on lion-friendly arrangements.

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests expressed concern over the fact that the lion is on the verge of extinction. Therefore it is important to build their second Lion reserve. If the Asiatic lion was tied in the same place then this species would be extinct.

Now the State Government has written a letter to the Central Government and requested to give permission to send the lion, giving details of arrangements made in Palpur. It has been mentioned in the letter that with the increase of the area of Kuno, it has been declared as National Park. Also, the preliminary conditions set out to bring the lion have been completed.

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Demand for bringing lions into Palpur reserve by RSS symposium

RSS Mohan Bhagwat Keshav Kuti Jabalpur Organized Forest and Environment Seminar for Asiatic-Lion

Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh chief Sarasangh Chowk Mohan Bhagwat's organized a seminar on Monday, February 25, in the Keshav Kuti Jabalpur, RSS Forest and Environment.

In this seminar, former MLA and Environmentalist Dr. Nishith Patel demanded transfer of Asiatic Lion to Kuno National Park. Shri Bhagwat requested that the Central Ministry of Forest and Environment and the Government of Gujarat should be Instructed for speedy action in this regard.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2...43720.html
http://theindianawaaz.com/kamal-nath-ask...a-pradesh/
http://www.uniindia.com/lion-issue-mp-cm...11724.html

Mr. Patel also informed Mr. Bhagwat that the recommendations of the Indian Forest Organisms and the Committee constituted for the transfer of Kuno National Park have also been implemented by the then BJP Government of Madhya Pradesh. Large amount of money spent by the state government on this.

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Dr. Nishith Patel, former MLA and Environmental expert, said in the seminar that the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has expressed concern over this matter and said that it is necessary to build a second reserve for the endangered Asiatic Lion. If the Asiatic lion is kept in one place then it will get some genetic disease and abnormalities due to "Inbreeding" then this species will become extinct. Kuno National Park of Madhya Pradesh is the most suitable place for the Asiatic Lions on the earth.

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Area double
Along with displaced and rehabilitated 24 villages (1543 families or households in which most of the inhabitants were Saharia tribal people and small percentage were Jatav, Brahmin, Gujjar, Kushwaha and Yadav) in Palpur National Park, now its area has increased to 800 sq.km by Madhya Pradesh govt. Earlier its area was half of it. A pleasant atmosphere without Human disturbance like in Gir  has been created for lions.

The letter sent to the Center has been told that a Committee of Indian Forest Organizations and Expert Committees of wildlife experts was constituted to resolve the objections raised by the Gujarat government. On whose recommendations, all the conditions have been fulfilled, which were obstructing the transfer of lions.

The Wildlife Institute of India ( WII ) has given green signal while expressing satisfaction over all the arrangements.

This is the case
Work is being done on the project to set up Asiatic lions in Kuno Palpur since 1993. Madhya Pradesh government became active only after the recommendation of sending them to other parts for their species survival due to infectious dreadful diseases or natural calamities.

In 2003, the reserve was ready for lions.

But the Gujarat government refused to send them. Since then, this dispute has come up.
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NOC found to bring cheetahs

Quote:The NOC (Nodal) International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been given to India for the conservation of extinct cheetahs in the Nauridehi WLS, located in the Sagar division of the "Pradesh" state.

The NTCA is taking action  of proposal in Supreme Court decision to relocate cheetahs from Namibia.

NTCA told the court that the experts team has studied the impact of climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development and they are fully satisfied.

Quote:Wildlife Institute Dehradun is collaborating on this proposal to rehabilitate the species of cheetah in the country.

It is known that Cheetah was last seen in India 72 years ago. The government tried to save it that it had already died in 1947.

After this, there was no trace of cheetah's presence in the survey conducted across the country. So, five years later, in 1952, it was declared as extinct. Namibia is the one of the few countries in the world where cheetah is found.

Madhya Pradesh's Tiger found in Gujarat.
Tiger disappeared from Madhya Pradesh for two years found in Gujarat. It has been revealed from photographs. The Forest Officers of the state wrote a letter to the Gujarat government and said to keep our tiger in safe custody.

According to the officials, the tiger got out of Kanha National Park and the forests reached Gujarat. Presently this tiger is in the shrinking forests of Gujarat. Whose continuous report is being recorded.

According to sources, in January 2017, a tiger was seen roaming in the hills of Nagda. Now it is revealed to be in the Gujarat forest area. It is reported that this tiger has reached Gujarat by traveling 300 kilometers distance through dense and hostile human matrix.

One concern that I have about Namibian cheetahs being translocated to India is that it may be that like lions, cheetahs in Southern Africa belong to a different subspecies to cheetahs in Northern Africa and Asia, and that North African cheetahs may be more closely related to the Asiatic cheetah, in the same way that North African lions would be related to Asiatic lions, like I mentioned here (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-cheetah...ht=cheetah): https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y

"... the divergence times between these lineages are very recent (Charruau et al. 2011), e.g. 32,000-67,000 ya between jubatus and venaticus, and 16,000-72,000 ya between jubatus and soemmeringii, and the inclusion of ancient DNA samples from north Africa and southwest Asia blurred the distinction between north African and Asian cheetahs, suggesting isolation by distance. It is possible that there are only two subspecies of cheetah; northern (venaticus) and southern/ eastern (jubatus), or perhaps none if further more comprehensive sampling of museum specimens is carried out." Reply