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(04-19-2015, 01:50 PM)'sanjay' Wrote:

(04-19-2015, 12:41 PM)'Richardrli' Wrote: Hang on a minute.....even IF they did make the lion the "national animal" (whatever that entails) how would that affect tiger conservation in practical terms? You can make sincere efforts to save both, considering the objective fact that lions indeed in fewer in numbers than tigers in India. Before I get lambasted here I want to make it clear that I am pro-tiger on this issue and I do NOT actually want this proposed move to go ahead, as far as I'm concerned the tiger is the national animal of India, but I just want to discuss the actual implications of this move without getting too emotionally worked up and lose sighting of the goals.

 

Exactly, Is it necessary to change Lion as national animals to protect both of them? As you said, there is no need to do anything, Just concentrate on saving these two.
On the other hand doing this will cause unnecessary panic among naturalist and conservationist and will cause unstability in ongoing conservation programs. News channel, people and other will start debating and hence reducing the conservation effort. I have already seen many wildlife photographers are against it, while people from Gujrat are in support of this (because Lion belong to their state).
On the other hand this is same government which do not want to share lions with other state in India. They don't care about goodness of animals, all they are interested in hype of their own state (Since Prime minster belong to gujrat). If they really care for Lions, first take solid steps to stop inbreeding problem among asiatic lions, grow there population in all over India.
In fact Asiatic Lions in India is a toy (or better political gain) for Central government, Since they were able to defend the nearly extinct population of lions in past, they are trying to cash in in votes. In reality they overlooked other problems that arise due to increase number of Lions in limited space.
I am sure, If they make them national animals, still they will not share it with other states.

 

This is just posturing, plain and simple. How long have we been reading about the attempt to relocate Gir Lions?
Newspapers are anything but unbiased, they need catchy titles to sell papers.
I couldn't care less about what some select few call the "national cat" as long as they are saved. So let me know when they stop their BS political non sense and real action actually occurs. You can call them Unicorns for all I care, just save them and their habitat. That goes for any animal in my book. Reply