Order of the High Court of Tripura in the matter of Court on its own motion Vs The Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & Others dated 09/01/2025. The HC was informed that National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has granted approval for establishing two new Facility-integrated ART Centres (Fi-ARTC) …
The number of herbivorous animals in the Gir wildlife sanctuary increased by 6.48% in the last one year. This was revealed during the herbivore count conducted by the forest department recently in the Gir sanctuary. If the figures for the last five years are considered, the number of herbivores in …
BHOPAL: State government has shot off another reminder, the second in two months, to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to take urgent measures to shift lions from Gujarat to Kuno wildlife sanctuary in Shivpuri district. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi had refused to entertain the request of the …
A 5-month-old lion cub was killed for its nails and bones by poachers on the outskirts of Gir Wildlife Sanctuary near Liliya in Amreli district, forest wardens said. The mutilated carcass was found with its feet and bones missing. Forest officials suspect poachers cut the feet after trapping and killing …
Gujarat has lost 46 lions and 37 cubs in the Gir forest area in the last two years, the State Assembly was informed today. All these deaths, barring one, in the protected area which is the last abode of Asiatic lions, were due to natural causes, Forest and Environment Minister …
In the last two years, 45 lions and 37 cubs died in Junagadh and Gir Somnath districts, all of natural causes. One lion had died an unnatural death in 2013. These deaths include the 16 lions that had died in the last six months in the East and West divisions …
Despite step-motherly treatment by the Centre, the lion population has grown steadily along with the area in which they can be found, claim officials of the state forest department. In contrast, the centre had launched various schemes and allocated massive funds for the tiger. Yet the tiger population of the …
Ahmedabad: If lions are not sent from Gir every four years to Kuno Palpur (Madhya Pradesh), the chance of their extinction in Kuno Palpur is 30% after a hundred years. This is among the extinction scenarios relating to the Madhya Pradesh site — proposed to be Gir lions’ new abode …
AHMEDABAD: It will be wildlife experts versus a management guru from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, when it comes to countering the claims of Madhya Pradesh over the translocation of lions to Kuno Palpur. The state forests department has asked the management guru to study the planned dispersal of …
Ahmedabad: Six months after the Supreme Court ordered the translocation of Asiatic lions from Gir to Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh, an expert committee has recommended that the process should begin by shifting a dozen big cats to the neighbouring state. Last week, the two-member expert panel comprising Wildlife Institute …
The 12-member committee formed to look into the translocation of Asiatic lions from the Gir sanctuary in Gujarat to Kuno-Palpur in Madhya Pradesh will now study the threat perception to these big cats in the proposed habitat. A two-member expert committee has been formed to list out threats and to …
The second meeting of the 12-member committee formed to decide on the lion translocation from Gir sanctuary in Gujarat to Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh will be held on August 19. The meeting has only one agenda — a presentation by Gujarat officials on conservation of lions. Meanwhile, Gujarat has …
Ahmedabad: Gujarat may be not willing to part with its lions for the Kuno Palpur wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, but Madhya Pradesh is getting ready in a big way to welcome the big cats from Gir. The forest department of MP has roped in trainers from World Wildlife Fund …
Nearly 53 lions were spotted in the area A separate lion conservation reserve has been proposed by forest authorities in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat after over 50 big cats were spotted in the area. Dr Sandeep Kumar, Deputy Conservator of Forest, Sasan-Gir, said the proposal was submitted to the state …
Have Asiatic lions found their own homes within the home around the Gir forest? State forest department officials said over the last two decades, lions have dispersed from the Gir forest, which was a core area of Asiatic lions, and have settled down in respective areas and made their permanent …
AHMEDABAD: The international market value of lion bones range between $ 300 and $ 500 for every kilogram. The bones are used in China for traditional Chinese medicines. Lion bones are being used as substitutes for tiger bone potions, finds Empower Foundation, a Mumbai based NGO working on Sanjay Gandhi …
Even while fighting a legal battle in the Supreme Court, the Gujarat Government, with the support of the Centre, is currently engaged in developing a second “interpretation zone” to enable the visitors to see Asiatic Lions in the wild at its only abode in the Gir sanctuary in the Saurashtra …
Raseela Vadher knows no fear. Unafraid, she ventures into Gir forest peering intently through the bush looking for signs of trouble. It is not the presence of wild animals that bothers her. She is on the lookout for poachers, illegal gangs felling prized teak trees, or local tribesmen lighting fires …
Even as the Gujarat Government is preparing to file a review petition against the order of the Division Bench of the Supreme Court for translocation of a section of Asiatic lions from its only abode in the Gir Sanctuary to Kuno-palpur in Madhya Pradesh, the people in Sasan and many …
Ahmedabad: The streets of Sasan, which are generally abuzz with activity since six in the morning, wore a deserted look on Thursday. The small town had given a bandh call to protest against the translocation of Asiatic Lions from Gir Sanctuary to Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh. Sarpanch of Sasan …
The Supreme Court on Monday directed concerned organizations to shift Asiatic lions from Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh. Asiatic lions will have a second home in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno wildlife sanctuary as the apex court permitted their relocation in limited numbers from Gujarat's Gir forest. The Supreme Court rejected Narendra Modi …
