Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

[Rishi]

@Sully @jordi6927 @Pckts Now that you've seen each others' responses i'm removing the posts.

(06-15-2019, 07:27 AM)jordi6927 Wrote:

(06-14-2019, 09:48 AM)Rishi Wrote: Right now some lions need to be relocated somewhere from Greater Gir, within or outside the state of Gujarat... makes no difference.

Gujarat itself has many very lowest populated regions of India, huge habitats like Kutchh scrublands & Banni grasslands. The Barda relation is just a lip service, is already being visited by lions and they would settle there by 2020 on their own.

If what you are saying is correct, then we should expect some of the lions to migrate on their own ... sounds like good news to me ... hopefully the Indian wildlife officials will see it the same way. Scrublands and grasslands sound like great lion habitat areas with enough game to support some prides.

Banni was once evaluated for cheetah reintroduction in India... And Rann of Kutchh is one of the last remaining habitats of Kulan wild ass, largest protected area of India. It gets marshy, especially during the monsoon, when the scrubs & saltpans get waterlogged but lions should be able to make do. Anything is better than those mango orchards & cotton fields around Gir they're living in now! 
Check this link for their present range & metapopulations: 14th Lion Population Estimation Report– 2015.

Unlike the smaller forest patches of Barda & Velvadhar, lions have to be artificially released to these massive unused habitats because they're far from Greater Gir.

Heres a map of the locations, and you'll find more info in discussions further ahead on this thread;

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