Supreme Court stalls Centre’s plan to reintroduce cheetahs in India
Project to bring African cheetahs in Kuno-Palpur sanctuary was initiated in 2010
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Misplaced pride
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‘Those who have endangered the Asiatic Lion’s future, have to be held accountable’
Experts say the only take away from the recent deaths of lions in Gir is that a second home for them can no longer be delayed
Lion attack in safari park near Gir, one killed
The Devaliya Safari Park near Sasan houses 10 lions. On Thursday morning, three forest department employees were attacked, resulting in …
Reliance mobile towers in Gir: Lion experts say any artificial object an intrusion into natural spaces
How much more will we intrude into nature, experts ask, even as the Gujarat wildlife board has already given permission to Reliance to install …
Is it time to find a second home for Asiatic lions?
The recent deaths of lions in Gir has raised the issue of their translocation to a safer place
‘It may be too late to contain virus outbreak killing Gir lions’
An American researcher, who worked on mitigating the canine distemper outbreak in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park in 1994, talks to Down …
Biporjoy: As cyclone nears Kutch & Saurashtra, concern grows over Gir lions, Naliya bustards
Some 700 lions are spread across the Gir landscape, whereas Naliya is home to 4 Great Indian Bustards
Forest Survey Report 2021: Overall decadal decline in forest cover in India’s 52 tiger reserves, Gir
Tiger reserves in India have lost 22.62 sq km of forest over the last decade while Gir has lost 33.43 sq km
Yes, there were lions in Haryana till the early 1800s and the British wiped them out
Between 1809 and 1823, hundreds of Asiatic lions were killed in today’s Haryana by British officers, soldiers and Indian princes aligned …
Wildlife Week: Trade in bones, taxonomic reclassification potential threats for Asiatic lions
Vying for attention with the greatly championed and more widespread Indian tigers, Asiatic lions may be fighting a difficult battle
More than Rs 25 crore for Asiatic lions unspent despite 331 deaths
Positions of forest guards, veterinarians and foresters are lying vacant and a vaccine is yet to be developed
Whose home is it, anyway?
The Maldharis of the Gir national park face eviction because their "unsustainable" economy if threatening the Asiatic lion
Choose or else
The ecodevelopment project being implemented in Gir National Park has raked up a controversy on the issue of relocation of the native Maldhari …
DTE Exclusive: Govt report blames half of Gir lion deaths in January-May this year on diseases
The other half died of natural causes, snake bite, electrocution and by falling into wells
How two-year-old Una flogging incident is killing Gir lions today
Most of the dead Gir lions were suffering from canine distemper, which spreads from dogs to bovines and water bodies before reaching big cats
Emerging cross-species infections are killing lions and humans
Infectious agents causing life-threatening diseases are spreading to new hosts, and human actions, ranging from dairy farming to tourism, are …
Gir deaths: one lion, two lionesses found guilty
While the lion killed and ate a teenager, the lionesses were not involved in attacking and killing, and ate leftover body parts
Project Lion: Proposal identifies 6 relocation sites apart from Kuno-Palpur
The proposal seeks to create free ranging lion populations within Gujarat and in India to counter lack of genetic diversity within Asiatic lions
Once upon a time in India, lions were present from West to East, even south of Narmada: Study
New paper enumerates sightings of lions from Bharuch, Seoni, Hazaribagh, Gumla, Kolkata and Dinajpur by analysing British Era records
Not just virus, tourism and staff crunch also kill Gir lions
Illegal lion shows and laxity in protection of forests one of the major reasons behind deaths of 23 Asiatic lions
Second home for Gujarat lions: 40 big cats to be moved to Barda from overflowing Gir
Translocation under Project Lion; previous papers suggest Barda may be too geographically close, may not be able to hold so many Asiatic lions
World Lion Day: The Asiatic lion is at a crossroads; can it find its way to Kuno?
The lions stand on the edge of a precipice; unless something urgent is done, Indians stand to lose a priceless part of their natural heritage