{"id":30848,"date":"2018-10-27T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30848"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T05:38:11","slug":"wells-rail-tracks-turn-death-traps-for-gir-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wells-rail-tracks-turn-death-traps-for-gir-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Wells, rail tracks turn death traps for Gir lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/wells-rail-tracks-turn-death-traps-for-gir-lions\/article22936286.ece\"><b>Wells, rail tracks turn death traps for Gir lions<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">32 lions died due to \u201cunnatural causes\u201d in two years in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Unnatural cases:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, 12 lions died, while in 2017, 20 lions, including cubs, died due to unnatural cases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Total of 184 lions died in the State in two years: 104 in 2016 and 80 in 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Safety measures:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parapet walls need to be built around walls as soon as possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are 27 open wells in Amreli district near the sanctuary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Construction of fences along the railway tracks passing through Amreli district.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building speed breakers on roads passing through the sanctuary area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the 2015 census , there were 523 lions in and around the Gir sanctuary.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Gir Forest National Park:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gir Forest National Park is a wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was established to protect Asiatic lions, who frequent the fenced-off Devalia Safari Park, along with leopards and antelopes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wells, rail tracks turn death traps for Gir lions Context: 32 lions died due to \u201cunnatural causes\u201d in two years in Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat. Unnatural cases: In 2016, 12 lions died, while in 2017, 20 lions, including cubs, died due to unnatural cases. \u00a0Total of 184 lions died in the State in two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wells-rail-tracks-turn-death-traps-for-gir-lions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wells, rail tracks turn death traps for Gir lions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895963},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}