A storm of death has hit the Asian lion species
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- The Gir forest has become a hot party area for harassing lion families for the past decade
Attention needs to be paid to Gir, the last home of the Asiatic lion. Like the entire Saurashtra-Gujarat identity, the Asiatic lion species is going through a dark crisis. The result of the state government and its forest department not taking any action against the accused in the incidents involving the lion has now come to the surface. The Gir Forest or Sasan Gir is the motherland of the Asiatic Lion and the last home of this endangered species. The state government has not fixed any responsibility of the forest officials regarding the number of dead bodies of lions being found one after the other for the last few days.
They are paid to protect Singh's life, yet the officials who are involved in the whole conspiracy are walking around openly and they believe that no one knows about their doings, whereas such elements are notorious in Gir Panthak. The state government has not yet taken any action against them.
The Gir forest has become a hot party area for harassing lion families for the past decade. The basic rule was to go for lion darshan in the gir during the day and come out before the evening falls and darkness descends on the girikandas. Today many tourists have started spending the night in the forest by showing various pretexts or using 'cash' pretext. At present, some diamond miners from Surat are building a helipad on the forest hills of Gir. Will they land there and then hike? not If the helipad is built, then they will spend the whole night in the forest, fighting the lion. The state government does not have any information about this helipad. So what is the other detail?
Immortalization of lions is so serious that lion fans have protested against it, but these are the fans who chase a lion for hundreds of kilometers and make a clip on mobile phones when it comes out of range at night. The way of loving the lion has been completely reversed, due to which lions are increasingly hated. A lion's body temperature is very high, due to which it gets short of breath in the afternoon.
At such times the lion rests in the wet sandy bed of rivers like Machhundri or Shetrunji. He has to spend the whole afternoon there with his family. Now people have reached far inland to the banks of those rivers and started teasing the lion there. At present there are more lions in Tal Gir than anywhere else outside Gir. It has a decade-old beginning to say goodbye to the Gir forest, which is beyond the understanding of the government or the forest department.
Gir Sanctuary was established in AD. It has been done in 1965. It is a lush and scenic wilderness sanctuary spread over a total area of 1412 sq km (258 sq km National Park and 1154 km Sanctuaries). Apart from this, Paniya and Mitiyala sanctuaries are also a part of Gir, if you add them, the total sanctuaries are considered to be very large. This area is enough for around 500 Vanrajs.
However, due to the influx of tourists, predatory harassment by anti-social elements who organize private lion shows and dwindling food and water, more than 200 lions have left the sanctuary and are currently roaming in the revenue areas. If this lion who came out could have read, he would have said that we experience sanctuary only outside the sanctuary. The state government has also not prepared any official report on the reasons, lifestyle and resettlement of these migrating lion families.
Anti-social elements who organize private lion shows have made huge sums of money over the past decade. Resorts are now built in the forest of Gir. These elements develop the habit of coming to a specific place every night to feed the lion. The meat is also rancid which affects the lion's immune system. A lion has a dangerous immune system, which is weakened by eating such stale meat. Later, the lion becomes prematurely old and cannot even hunt, so he keeps coming to a specific place according to the routine developed by the organizing elements of the private lion show. The officials of the forest department have a list of the elements that make the entire forest tremble, but due to the heavy 'weight' on it, the file is not opened due to their own fault.
If the same initiative continues as the state government is doing now, it will not be long before the Gir forest becomes empty. Now the famous savior of the lion species in Tanzania is about to arrive in Gir. This is the Richard Coke who earlier expressed the horror of the present epidemic, but then the government did not consider this great man as 'Coke'. So in AD In 2016-17, the reply of the Forest Minister in the Assembly regarding the death of a total of 184 lions was heard by the opposition party in Thane College. The same opposition and the ruling party are now arguing in vain. The famous Gujarat High Court had earlier made the state government sleepless by suo moto writ.
Despite such a dangerous situation, caravans of government officials camp overnight in Gir resorts and farm houses of semi-politicians and constantly search for the lion's location. We have nothing left to harass the lion. As many lions as there are now in Gir, there are too many to be saved there. Even in the sanctuary where not a single private vehicle is allowed to enter at night, tourists are seen wandering around at night. The personal collection of top forest department officials contains several video clips of private lion shows and lion rampages. They can put each one behind bars if they think so, but unfortunately they don't think so.
It may not be the fault of the Forest Department officials alone, but what the people of Gir and the local community are talking about is completely useless, isn't it? Even so, it is the rule that blame is shown only to those who have responsibility and have failed to fulfill that responsibility. If you check the history of how many theories the forest department changed by the time lion bodies were found and then members of the National Zoo Authority came to Gir from Delhi, you will immediately understand under whose umbrella Gir is being progressively criminalized. The sighting of a lion is a memorable and thrilling event of life for a tourist. His regal influence is never twenty nights, but he is a king and every king has a protocol to meet. Man himself breaking all those protocols has struck a death knell for the Asian lion.
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