{"id":944,"date":"2016-07-13T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/?p=944"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:32:23","slug":"new-steps-forward-now-possible-for-indias-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/2016\/07\/13\/new-steps-forward-now-possible-for-indias-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"New steps forward now possible for India’s lions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"India<\/a><\/p>\n

After decades\u00a0of political debate,\u00a0it is now possible that a small number of India’s lions will be translocated into the Kuno wildlife reserve. This offers a major opportunity to expand the population away from the high density situation currently apparent in the Gir forest in Gujarat (which is currently surrounded by highly populated rural landscape).<\/p>\n

A translocation was prrevioulsy attempted in 1957 in\u00a0Chandrprabha Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh\u00a0but failed due to lack of follow up, monitoring and management.<\/p>\n

The Kuno Sanctuary itself was first surveyed in 1993-4 as part of an assessment of possible additional\u00a0habitats for lions. It provides a chance to have a second wild population kept clear of the Gir population as an insurance against unforeseen threats, such as infectious disease.<\/p>\n

Venkataraman (2010) suggests two ways of optimizing the natural dispersal of lions, either (i) adaptive population management within the satellite habitats by translocating and active management of the sub-poluations or (ii) facilitating the corridors for natural dispersal. A new population in Kuno \u00a0would represent option 1. A future Kuno population would be mamnaged alongside existing sub-populations which have already dispered into areas outside the Gir forest including\u00a0 coastal areas to the south, Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary (WLS), and hill ranges extending from MitiyalaSavarkundla-Palitana-Shihor towards the\u00a0Junagadh, Amreli and Bhavnagar districts of Gujarat.<\/p>\n

The coming years will be an interesting time for active conservtion management of lions.<\/p>\n

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Reading:<\/p>\n

Chellam, R., Joshua, J., Williams, C.A. & Johnsingh, A.J.T. (1995) Survey of Potential Sites for Reintroduction of Asiatic Lions. Unpublished Report, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehra Dun, India.<\/p>\n

Divyabhanusinh, C. (2005) The Story of Asia\u2019s Lions. Marg Publications, Mumbai, India.<\/p>\n

Johnsingh, A.J.T. , Goyal, S.P. \u00a0and Qureshi, Q. (2007)\u00a0Preparations for the reintroduction of Asiatic lion Panthera leo persica into Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh, India. Oryx , 41(1), 93\u201396.<\/p>\n

Venkataraman, M. (2010) \u2018Site\u2019ing the right reasons: critical evaluation of conservation planning for the Asiatic lion Meena. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2010, Vol.56(2), pp.209-213<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After decades\u00a0of political debate,\u00a0it is now possible that a small number of India’s lions will be translocated into the Kuno wildlife reserve. This offers a major opportunity to expand the population away from the high density situation currently apparent in the Gir forest in Gujarat (which is currently surrounded by highly populated rural landscape). A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17622],"tags":[5056,160440],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}