A Michael Broad Blog
This is a neat little Twitter video of an Asiatic lion wandering onto farmland, not that far from the farmer who captured the video, and towards another Asiatic lion who is resting on the farmland. It is a day in the life of farmers near this famous lion reserve. I sense that they are …
Yes, in India, Gir Forest Asiatic lions eat camels albeit relatively rarely. One point four percent (1.4%) of kills by Asiatic lions in that habitat were camels according to Table 56 OCCURENCE OF WILD AND DOMESTIC PREY ITEMS IN THE DIETS OF GIR FOREST LIONS (PERCENTAGE OF KILLS) at page 302 of the book …
In the Gir National Park sometimes referred to as the Gir Forest a lioness is raising a leopard cub. This is highly unusual. This national park is well known as the home of the Asiatic lion. Counting lions is difficult but we are told that there are about 600 but their survival is precarious …
Once they have found him, a man-eating lion living in the north-west of India in the Gir National Park will be spared and placed in a zoo instead of being shot. I like that. It is the kind of attitude which pleases me. In the past this would not have happened. A “white hunter” …
The only place where the wild Asiatic lion lives is in the Gir Forest, Gujarat, India. It has been a success story. The population of lions has increased. In 1968 there were less than 200 lions. Today the number is 441. There are calls to relocate some of the lions to another reserve. This …
Hundreds of villagers are being forced out of their homes in central India to make way for a new Asiatic lion sanctuary in an area where the animals were hunted to the brink of extinction in the nineteenth century. The reason why it has been decided to create a second sanctuary for the Asiatic …
Asiatic lion – Photo by DrGaz Introduction Description Name & Classification News April 2010Range History Threats & Conservation Introduction See lion facts for information on both subspecies of lion. There are 359 Asiatic lions left in the wild (Gir National Park) at April 2010 (this figure is quoted as being the same in 2006 …
