do you know besides Africa,which is the only place in the
world where you can spot lions roaming free in the wild??
no,it's not the discovery channel.it's the GIR national park
in gujarat.
ON PRIVATE GROUNDS
Tourist flock to the famous national park to catch a glimpse of the majestic Asiatic lions-a species of lion-who are the park's most famous residents.Even Master blaster sachin tendulkar couldn't resist a picture with the lion in the background while at the park recently on a holiday.
GIR national park is the only home of the asiatic lions in the world.Indiscriminate hunting led to their numbers reducing drastically,while population in other parts of the asia was completely wiped out.They were last seen outside India in iran in 1941.This would have been the case at the Gir Forests too if it had not been for the nawab of junagadh who protected the feline royalty in his own pvt hunting grounds.since then,also due to the efforts of Forests Dept officials,from a population of approx 20 lions in 1913,they have grown to a comfortable 411 according to a census conducted in 2010;so much so that wildlife experts feel that they have outgrown the park and need to be moved!but how can a few hundred lions outgrow 1142 sq.km.area (almost the size of delhi) of national park and forest?that is because the King of the forest shares the park with several of his subjects-around 32,000 Indan spotted deer,and one of the largest populations of marsh crocodiles in the country.If you still think that's not bad,consider also sharing your home with 300 leopards, 40 species of reptiles,250 birds' species' 2000 species of invertebrates and about 50 other species!! NO wonder they want to move out.
But that also means, as human visitors we have more to see and photograph --soft-shelled turtle,star tortoises,Indian rock pythons,monitor lizards,blue bulls,sambars ,jackals,black buck,wild boar, chousinghas (the world's only four-horned antelope), crested serpent eagles, laggar falcons, and the endangered lesser floricans and the saras cranes, besides many many more.WHAT A GOOD DEED(isn't it)
GIR NATIONAL PARK
do you know besides Africa,which is the only place in the
world where you can spot lions roaming free in the wild??
no,it's not the discovery channel.it's the GIR national park
in gujarat.
ON PRIVATE GROUNDS
Tourist flock to the famous national park to catch a glimpse of the majestic Asiatic lions-a species of lion-who are the park's most famous residents.Even Master blaster sachin tendulkar couldn't resist a picture with the lion in the background while at the park recently on a holiday.
GIR national park is the only home of the asiatic lions in the world.Indiscriminate hunting led to their numbers reducing drastically,while population in other parts of the asia was completely wiped out.They were last seen outside India in iran in 1941.This would have been the case at the Gir Forests too if it had not been for the nawab of junagadh who protected the feline royalty in his own pvt hunting grounds.since then,also due to the efforts of Forests Dept officials,from a population of approx 20 lions in 1913,they have grown to a comfortable 411 according to a census conducted in 2010;so much so that wildlife experts feel that they have outgrown the park and need to be moved!! but how can a few hundred lions outgrow 1142 sq.km.area (almost the size of delhi) of national park and forest?that is because the King of the forest shares the park with several of his subjects-around 32,000 Indan spotted deer,and one of the largest populations of marsh crocodiles in the country.If you still think that's not bad,consider also sharing your home with 300 leopards, 40 species of reptiles,250 birds' species' 2000 species of invertebrates and about 50 other species!! NO wonder they want to move out.
But that also means, as human visitors we have more to see and photograph --soft-shelled turtle,star tortoises,Indian rock pythons,monitor lizards,blue bulls,sambars ,jackals,black buck,wild boar, chousinghas (the world's only four-horned antelope), crested serpent eagles, laggar falcons, and the endangered lesser floricans and the saras cranes, besides many many more.WHAT A GOOD DEED(isn't it)
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