Affidavit filed by the Chief Wildlife Warden, Assam in the matter of news item titled "the last feral horses in India" appearing in Mongabay, November 5, 2024. The matter relates to the critically endangered status of feral horses in the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park as well as of smuggling of these …
Gandhinagar, March 9: Gujarat government has admitted that as many as 72 lions have died in the Gir forest in Gujarat. Gir is the only abode of lions in the entire Asia. In a written reply to a question asked by Congress MLA Chandubhai Dabhi, the Gujarat government said that …
Gandhinagar: The state government, for the first time, came out in the open in the state assembly regarding its opposition to shifting of Asiatic lions from Gir to Madhya Pradesh. The government in reply to the question asked by MLA of Karjan Chandu Dabhi said on Tuesday that for conservation …
AHMEDABAD: For hundreds of years now, this lion-faced state has been a natural abode of the jungle king. Lions were hunted in large numbers in northern and western India in 19th century. Gir was their last refuge because the Gujaratis protected them. It is on sound scientific counts that Gujarat …
By Anurag Joshi Bhopal, Feb 19: The Government of Gujarat is interested in monopolising the possession of Asiatic Lions as it has refused to give Lions for Madhya Pradesh during the hearing in Supreme Court. Proposal of Government of India (GoI) to exchange Asiatic Lions of Gir Sanctuary with tigers …
DEEPAL TRIVEDI The Gujarat government is unlikely to budge from its position regarding shifting of some lions from Gujarat to neighbouring Madhya Pradesh. The Centre has offered to swap lions with tigers but the Gujarat government is not keen over this offer. A top official of the Gujarat government dealing …
Saeed Khan | TNN Ahmedabad: The kingpin in lion poaching cases, Sarkaslal Saharesingh Parghi stood a free man a week ago, as the Gujarat High Court ordered to consider his two separate jail terms concurrently. He was sentenced to three years
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: The Centre has offered to re-introduce tigers in the forest of Dangs as an incentive to Gujarat to part with some Asiatic lions for Madhya Pradesh. Gujarat has been opposing the proposal to give lions to MP and the battle is at its peak in the Supreme Court. …
In an effort to upgrade the conservation and protection of the Asiatic lions in the 1,412 square kilometres of the Gir National Park and Sanctuary, a Global Positioning System (GPS) would soon be deployed in the area. The programme envisages providing the forest department staff with GPS gadgets which would …
The Gujarat government is procuring high-tech gadgets like GPS, automated sensor grid and night vision devices to track lions and keep poachers at bay at the Gir National Park. Poaching of eight lions in April 2007 in the Gir had sent shock waves across the state following which the state …
Politics has no place when it comes to protecting lions. This seems to be the message conveyed by the Gujarat Government to the Supreme Court when it made it clear that there was no going back from its well-known stand opposing relocation of lions from Gir sanctuary to Kuno Palpur …
Feb 05 : It was a coup with a difference. No life was lost. No blood was shed. No one lost power. There was, to use a common phrase of this century, no regime change. But a king lost a crown. A new claimant became an icon. It was a …
Former PCCF Says Kuno Palpur Sanctuary Can House Zoo-Bred Lions Ahmedabad: The government of Gujarat was not consulted by the Centre when the latter planned a project to translocate Asiatic lions from Gir forest to Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh, says a former forest official. M Sharma, the former principal …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Gujarat appears to have already handed over the Asiatic lions to assertive neighbour Madhya Pradesh (MP) on a platter. This time when the petition came up for hearing in the supreme court, the Gujarat government had made up its mind to seek four weeks
Ahmedabad: Gujarat may have been opposing the transfer of lions on grounds of wildlife survival, the real fear is that once the Asiastic lions were shifted to Madhya Pradesh (MP), they would provide a major boost to the latter
