subject: The Lion Population In Gir [print this page] All the pent up suspense of the past half a decade over the lion population in Gir finally came to an end in the month of April this year, in fat on the 24th of April to be precise.
It had never been easy to spot the lion king but this time the foresters had made a special effort with the help of the advancements in technology. In fact this had been the very first when the lion census had been carried out on such a large scale, especially when compared to how it had been conducted in the past few years.
All the team members including the laborers, the forest staff and also the people who had volunteered in the respective had fanned out over almost 300 beats that had been made from a 5,000 sq km area called as the Greater Gir. Of theses there had been more than five regions that had been identified and were then sub categorized into zones, sub-zones and then beats.
Not only that but this had also been the very first time that the Greater Gir region that was inclusive of the four districts - Amreli, Junagadh, Bhavnagar and also some parts of the Porbandar had also been covered for the census. Prior to this it had been limited to the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary which spanned an area of around 1,412 sq km. The new areas that had been included into Gir for the census had been the result of the establishment that the lion territory was now seeing expansion outside of the sanctuary area.
Not only that but the method of direct sighting had been employed. Owing to this methodology, there had been particular body marks that had been loaded into the GPS device which had been carried by almost team members. The chief conservator of the woods named Pradip Khanna believed that this had aided in the reduction of redundancies and he had been right.
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