{"id":86629,"date":"2019-02-09T14:11:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T08:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2019-02-09T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T08:41:59","slug":"vet-institute-ambulances-mooted-in-rs-98-crore-lion-conservation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/vet-institute-ambulances-mooted-in-rs-98-crore-lion-conservation-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vet institute, ambulances mooted in Rs. 98 crore Asiatic Lion Conservation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  1. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has launched the ‘Asiatic Lion Conservation Project’<\/strong> . It aims to protect and conserve the world’s last wild population of Asiatic Lion – a species endemic to the Gir, Gujarat.<\/li>
  2. The 3 year long conservation project which has a \u201cSpecies Conservation over a large landscape\u201d focuses on a) disease management, b) habitat improvement and eco-development, c) robust wildlife health service with a dedicated veterinary institute, d) addressing to man-wild animal conflict issues, e) voluntary relocation of Protect Area inhabitants ( Maldhari tribe), f) monitoring and tracking of animals, g) creating a wildlife crime cell, and h) ecotourism.<\/li>
  3. Asiatic Lion, a pantherine cat, is listed as ‘Endangered’ under the IUCN Red List and is exposed to severe threats like – a) growing lion population and shrinking habitat, b) vulnerability to diseases, c) death from linear infrastructure such as road, rail and electric fences and d) man-animal conflict.<\/li>
  4. In 2013, the Supreme Court had directed the translocation of lions from Gujarat to Kuno-Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. This was on grounds that concentration in one area makes them vulnerable to extinction from unpredictable events like epidemic or natural calamity.  <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has launched the ‘Asiatic Lion Conservation Project’ . It aims to protect and conserve the world’s last wild population of Asiatic Lion – a species endemic to the Gir, Gujarat. The 3 year long conservation project which has a \u201cSpecies Conservation over a large landscape\u201d focuses on… Continue reading Vet institute, ambulances mooted in Rs. 98 crore Asiatic Lion Conservation Project<\/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":[4182],"tags":[4186,4187],"class_list":["post-86629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-asiatic-lion-conservation-project","tag-wildlife-conservation-in-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704635623},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86629","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=86629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}