Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

[Sanju]

(02-21-2019, 05:15 PM)Rishi Wrote: If a Parliamentary Panel did recommend that experts be consulted for exploring the option of shifting some of the lions in nearby sanctuaries outside the state. So they'll be more inclined do so so within the state to counter that.

Yes, Gujarat is blessed with arid and other tropical varied habitats for Lions but other states (Deccan) are no less even in historic Lion range.

Quote:They should be populated outside (if it is different country with potential to do so, then it'll be the best moment for them) and inside the State.

"State" shouldn't be a boundary factor to restrict their lives. It is always an appreciable move for Lions to establish a separate gene pool in different region with that area's natural selection pressures bringing adaptations.

Even if they are 24*7*365(6) injected with vaccines and medicines and rescued in multi specialty rescue operation centers, fed with nutritious diet and gifted that no natural disaster can cause harm or damage and are completely safe from extinction, it is still great to populate them in other places, after all increasing their numbers in their own range is never bad, nobody can deny that.

Wolves even being least concern species is still reintroduced in their lost range not only for their benefit. It is for the role they play in ecological diversity to maintain those ecosystems. Likewise, for the Lion. If we don't have chance to do that, we can leave it, but even having chance of their revival and support from scientists, organisations, committees, panels, court and willing and spending govt to do so, holding back is hazardous for this long (a century since their local extinctions inc cheetah).

The more their sub populations are separated by distance, the more the subspecies is far from extinction and the better the future is secured in long term survival. Nothing like [Gujarat is equal to Lion]. Not only Nilgai, Onager and Camel; Kutch other landscapes and habitats, wild prey like chinkara, blackbuck, wild boar, chital, sambar, nilgai, chausingha, langur etc.., also waiting for their return to their home ranges and restoration of their falling bio-tops.

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