Affidavit by HPCL Shapoorji Energy Pvt Ltd. in compliance to the National Green Tribunal order, February 12, 2020 in the matter of Protection of Environment and Public Service Committee Vs Union of India & Others. The matter related to an all-weather deep-draft port at village Chhara Sarakhadi in taluka Kodinar …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), citing a report of the CITES secretariat tabled for the 65th meeting of the standing committee, has stated that the lion populations in Gujarat and even in Africa are under threat of poaching, due to illegal trade in lion body parts for medicinal …
Gujarat forest department has taken up a study on fluorosis among the lions in Lathi Liliya area. Anand Veterinary Institute has been entrusted with the task. The department decided to take up the study following a finding by two doctors, Dr Jalpan Rupara and Dr Purvesh Kacha. The doctors in …
Mountain lions in Southern California are under growing pressure from a shrinking gene pool, fragmented by highways and urban sprawl that has left the cats' territories increasingly isolated from each other, a study published on Wednesday showed. Analysis of DNA from about 350 mountain lions, or cougars, statewide revealed that …
AHMEDABAD: Barda Dungar, a lion translocation site within Gujarat, should be an isolated lion habitat, which should not have connection with Gir Sanctuary, suggested experts of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII). It was in October 2013 the state government had asked WII scientists and lion expert Y V Jhala …
Gujarat high court on Thursday sought an explanation from the Centre and the state government over the proposed new tourism zone in Dhari division of Gir sanctuary, the last abode of Asiatic lions. Taking suo motu cognizance of an anonymous letter from a local resident taking exception to construction in …
With camouflage uniforms, assault rifles, night vision goggles, thermal imaging devices and radios, wildlife rangers in Kenya's Ol Jogi rhino sanctuary prepare for night patrol in the "war" against poaching. As the late afternoon sun creeps towards the horizon and shadows lengthen on the sweeping plains dotted with rocky outcrops, …
Madhya Pradesh forest officials have again got on camera a Rajasthan tiger T-38 in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary where Gir lions from Gujarat are proposed to be shifted. Its dominance in the area has now become a cause of concern for the two states. State forest officials are more worried over its …
AHMEDABAD: In a major blow to the Gujarat government, the last hope against translocation of Asiatic lions to Kuno Palpur has been dashed. The three judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India R M Lodha rejected the curative petition filed by Gujarat government against the apex court's order directing …
Amid the ongoing legal battle for the translocation of the Asiatic lions from Gir forest in Gujarat to Kuno Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, shocking data of lion deaths and incidents of attack on humans by the wild cats including lions in and around Gir Sanctuary in last two …
Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister Gaurishankar Shejwar on Thursday assured the Assembly that Asiatic lions from Gujarat's Gir Wildlife Sanctuary would be translocated to Kuno-Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Sheopur district soon. Replying to query by Satyapal Singh Sikarwar (ruling Bharatiya Janata Party) during the Question Hour, Shejwar said a technical committee …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has called for all efforts to bring lions from Gujarat to Kuno-Palpur sanctuary so that the work to rehabilitate lions in Madhya Pradesh can be started at the earliest. Chouhan was chairing the 11th meeting of the Madhya Pradesh State Wildlife Board here on Tuesday. …
Safety measures for lions are likely to figure in the state's budgetary provisions this year. The Gujarat forest and environment department has proposed fencing along the railway tracks and construction of 23 underpasses in the coastal parts of Rajula. The death of six lions after being hit by speeding goods …
The lions of Gir in Gujarat are now under the radar of Wildlife Institute of India (WII). In view of the rising incidents of their straying, at least 10 lions are being radio collared to study their migration patterns outside the Protected Area. It will be for the first time …
AHMEDABAD: The Madhya Pradesh government has forwarded a proposal for Rs 80 crore assistance to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), for the lion conservation project to be taken up at Kuno-Palpur. MP officials in the past had demanded the same amount from the 12-member lion expert group, …
Gir And Girnar Likely To Be First In India To Find Place On Both Culture, Nature Lists. The proposal for the World Heritage Site status for Gir and Girnar could make it the county’s first to be on both cultural and nature site lists. The site houses the Asiatic Lion …
After Narendra Modi, proud custodian of Gir lions, moved from Gandhi Nagar to the helm at Delhi, Madhya Pradesh's hopes of getting the magnificent species on its land have faded. While Gujarat government has already moved a curative petition in Supreme Court as its last legal resort to retain its …
A fresh petition filed in the Supreme Court suggests that the proposed translocation of Gir lions to Kuno-Palpur in Madhya Pradesh may harm tigers moving from Rajasthan to Madhya Pradesh. It also suggests that the arrival of the tiger in India may have been responsible for the decline in the …
Ahmedabad: The two-day annual census of herbivores in Gir Forest and National Park began on Monday. The count will determine the prey base for the lions in the area. A year later (in May 2015) the main census of Asiatic lions in Saurashtra will be conducted. The herbivore census is …
During a recent meeting, state forest and NHAI officials have decided to set speed restrictions in the area where lions are found in groups along the costal area in Saurashtra. The officials have also decided to put up signage and finalized a proposal to construct speed breakers in pockets where …
Conflict between endangered predators and cattle-owning Masai significantly helped by project using African myrrh trees A new low-tech solution is helping eliminate an age-old problem in northern Tanzania – the conflict between predators and farmers. Lions raid Masai cattle in the villages, and then the herders kill lions in retribution. …
