PM Modi chairs National Wildlife Board meet in Gujarat, announces lion censusPrime Minister Narendra Modi went on a lion safari at Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat on World Wildlife Day. He also chaired the seventh ...
03 Mar, 2025, 03.23 PM IST
Reexamining translocation of Asiatic lions from Gir to MP's Kuno National Park: Centre to SCThe application said that in view of the recent introduction of African cheetahs in the Kuno National Park and steps taken to secure the fu...
28 Mar, 2023, 08.48 PM IST
Gir lions to be translocated only after looking at all aspects: Govt in ParliamentIn April 2013, the Supreme Court had ordered the shifting of some of Gujarat's lions to the Kuno sanctuary in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, ...
15 Dec, 2022, 05.42 PM IST
Will soon launch project to conserve Asiatic Lions in a holistic manner: PM ModiProject Lion will entail habitat development, engage modern technologies in lion management and address the issue of diseases among lions a...
15 Aug, 2020, 02.15 PM IST
What's stopping the Asiatic lions of Gir from getting a new home?Gujarat’s refusal to move some of Gir’s lions to Madhya Pradesh despite the death of 24 lions has more to do with politics than the effecti...
20 Oct, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
US places Indian lion in endangered species listIn the last 20 years, lion populations have declined by 43% due to habitat loss and retaliatory killing of lions by a growing human populat...
22 Dec, 2015, 10.56 AM IST
Gujarat's Gir celebrates 50 years as lions' sole sanctuaryGir sanctuary completes 50 years of conservation on Friday with the release of a special postal stamp and launch of year-long festivities.
17 Sep, 2015, 11.56 AM IST
Is it time to find a second home for Gir's free-ranging population of Asiatic lions?As India celebrates the success story of the Gir lions, it’s time to ask shouldn’t we safeguard national treasures and establish a second f...
08 Aug, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
India's wandering lions captured on DiscoveryThe mesmerising story of Asiatic lions, once on the brink of extinction but who now spill over the borders of Gir Sanctuary, has been captu...
05 Jul, 2015, 02.31 PM IST
Conservation of Gir lions a success; but conservationists fear risks of single-location reservesGir in the southern Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, which is the lone abode of the Asiatic lion in the wild.
18 May, 2015, 03.31 PM IST
- Task force to study growing habitat of Asiatic lions in Guj
Gujarat government has decided to form a high-level task force to study the growing habitat of Asiatic lions, after the latest census revea...
18 May, 2015, 10.45 AM IST
- Barda wait began with Kuno
If Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh has been waiting for lions since 1990’s, it is Barda Dungar in Gujarat which has also been waiting for a s...
08 Oct, 2014, 02.41 PM IST
Barda suitable site for lion translocation: WII studyBarda Dungar, a lion translocation site within Gujarat, should be an isolated lion habitat, which should not have connection with Gir Sanct...
07 Oct, 2014, 04.30 AM IST
- Train runs over 2 lionesses near Gir, one was pregnant with 3 cubs
Two lionesses, one of them pregnant with three cubs, were run over by a container train near Pipavav port in Amreli district, around 40km f...
23 Jan, 2014, 04.53 AM IST
- Virus attack in Asiatic lions a hoax: Study
The result of examination of the presence of Canine Distemper Virus (CDR) or Pestes Des Petitis Ruminants Virus (PPVR) in Asiatic lion has ...
18 Oct, 2013, 02.27 PM IST
Gujarat readies to clone its lionsIn collaboration with the Gujarat State Bio-Technology Mission (GSBTM), the forest department has already collected 80 strains of DNA of th...
30 Jul, 2013, 02.01 AM IST
- Gujarat opposes shifting lion sanctuary to MP tiger reserve
Amidst growing concern over depleting tiger population in the country, Gujarat stoutly opposed in the Supreme Court, the Centre's proposal ...
11 Feb, 2010, 06.18 PM IST