Asiatic Lion

THREAT TO ASIATIC LION

Traditionally, We were principally decreased in numbers to one easily countable population as a result of massive poaching, fragmentation, and habitat loss. However these dangers were overcome by some protections given by the government in the form of reserved areas for us, but still, have the other main dangers massively related to our conflicts with the human beings.

The near closeness of livestock, predators, and individuals using all the rising enlargement of agricultural and residential areas beyond the secure spot give increase to a large number of issues which are a massive danger for me.

As a result of the government’s programs launched for our security, we are growing in numbers and because of it some of our members surviving outside the boundaries of the Gir National Park where a large number of the human population lives with livestock. Livestock was always our favorite hunt from the past and this become one of the reasons responsible for our conflict with the humans.

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As we are restricted to a single with a smaller area, face some many dying out dangers involving both hereditary and ecological. My little population is exceptionally at risk of infection outbreaks, environmental disasters, and mainly illegal hunting. The isolation of our community may cause inbreeding owing to some decrease of the hereditary variant.

THE ASIATIC LION REINTRODUCTION PROJECT AND ITS IMPACT:

Indian Government started a project named The Asiatic Lion Reintroduction to provide me the safe shelter to increase our numbers in the wild. My safest home in India is only the Gir National Park located in the state of Gujarat. I significantly face the dangers of natural disasters, epidemics, and other anthropogenic elements.

The project started with an aim to relocate some of my family members to near state Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary to increase our number as well as the protected area for us. But, you know what? My proposed translocation was not much popular in Gujarat and defined by the state government of Gujarat.

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Even the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is currently exceptionally overpopulated with my family, as per the 2015 census counting, we are 523 in numbers. And as I said earlier, 20% of my family member’s are leaving outside the protected area that causes my conflict with humans and as a result of lots of death are happening yearly.

My pride demands enormous lands, but there’s minimal space at Gir wildlife sanctuary, that will be boxed in on either side by significant human residence. We have become spread above 16,000 sq km in the area of all 1000 small villages in a few neighboring regions – Amreli, Bhavnagar, and Junagadh.

RESERVES AND PREVENTION

First conservation effort for me was done in the year 1910. The Nawab of Junagadh was the first who enforced a ban on my poaching in their state. The poaching ban was continued to the freedom of the country. In the 1960s and 1970s, Gir, my last home in India, has been changed into a National Park and Sanctuary.

Presently, Kuno wildlife sanctuary becoming the helping hand for us to reduce our overcrowding in the Gir National Park. If you want to meet me personally, then you have to visit Gir National Park in the state of Gujarat.