Lion Population

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India's lion population has seen a steady increase in the last few years as he greeted people on World Lion Day.

As we observe World Lion Day on August 10, there couldn't be a better way to raise awareness about the conservation and sustainable solutions to save the global wild lion population, which has now reduced to only about 20,000.

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said it was "conservation success" after the Gujarat government announced that the population of Asiatic lions has gone up by 29 per cent in the Gir forests.

The population of Asiatic lions in the Gir forest has increased, and so has their distribution area, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today.

Indonesia has recommended closer scrutiny of automated control systems, better design of flight deck alerts and accounting for a more diverse pilot population in the wake of a Boeing 737 MAX crash, according to a copy of a final report seen by Reuters.

The country's top medical and virology investigators asked the government on Tuesday to shift healthy lions from Gujarat's Gir forest after fresh samples of lions tested positive for a virus, which had wiped out 30 per cent of the animal's population in East Africa, indicating "active disease transmission".

Lion fights are messy and injuries to their bodies would be immediately obvious. So it begs the question of why there are no definitive answers for the deaths when infighting is the main explanation given by the forest department. The department has admitted to the presence of an infection in the liver and lungs of some of the lions in their press ...

Just a few decades ago, the California sea lion seemed on the verge of becoming an endangered species. It was 1964, and hunting and fishing had caused the breeding population off the West Coast to shrink to just 35,000.

Have humans damaged the Earth's ecosystems so severely that we're well on our way to the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs vanished 66 million years ago? And are we running out of time to reverse the negative impacts of our actions?

A year ago, an American killed a lion in Zimbabwe in what authorities said was an illegal hunt, infuriating people worldwide and invigorating an international campaign against trophy hunting in Africa. Some conservationists, however, warn there are greater threats to Africa's beleaguered lion populations, including human encroachment on their habit...

Wildlife rangers in Nairobi on Friday hunted for two lions who escaped from Nairobi's national park and meandered into "highly populated" areas of the Kenyan capital.

People moved by the death of Zimbabwe's beloved Cecil the lion should donate to conservation efforts to save Africa's dwindling population of the giant cats, a professor who spent years tracking Cecil said on Wednesday.

Almost a month after devastating floods in Amreli, Gujarat left 10 Asiatic lions and hundreds of wild animals dead, forest officials are still taking stock of the big cat population

A new census in Gir forests has revealed that the population of the Asiatic lion in its only abode has risen by 52 to reach the figure of 411.

While the rest of India is fighting to save the tiger, the Gujarat government has announced an increase in its lion population at the Gir National Park. While conservationists say that this is a good sign of the park's health, they are worried that Asia's only lions could however, be in danger of being wiped out.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India's lion population has seen a steady increase in the last few years as he greeted people on World Lion Day.

As we observe World Lion Day on August 10, there couldn't be a better way to raise awareness about the conservation and sustainable solutions to save the global wild lion population, which has now reduced to only about 20,000.

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said it was "conservation success" after the Gujarat government announced that the population of Asiatic lions has gone up by 29 per cent in the Gir forests.

The population of Asiatic lions in the Gir forest has increased, and so has their distribution area, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today.

Indonesia has recommended closer scrutiny of automated control systems, better design of flight deck alerts and accounting for a more diverse pilot population in the wake of a Boeing 737 MAX crash, according to a copy of a final report seen by Reuters.

The country's top medical and virology investigators asked the government on Tuesday to shift healthy lions from Gujarat's Gir forest after fresh samples of lions tested positive for a virus, which had wiped out 30 per cent of the animal's population in East Africa, indicating "active disease transmission".

Lion fights are messy and injuries to their bodies would be immediately obvious. So it begs the question of why there are no definitive answers for the deaths when infighting is the main explanation given by the forest department. The department has admitted to the presence of an infection in the liver and lungs of some of the lions in their press ...

Just a few decades ago, the California sea lion seemed on the verge of becoming an endangered species. It was 1964, and hunting and fishing had caused the breeding population off the West Coast to shrink to just 35,000.

Have humans damaged the Earth's ecosystems so severely that we're well on our way to the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs vanished 66 million years ago? And are we running out of time to reverse the negative impacts of our actions?

A year ago, an American killed a lion in Zimbabwe in what authorities said was an illegal hunt, infuriating people worldwide and invigorating an international campaign against trophy hunting in Africa. Some conservationists, however, warn there are greater threats to Africa's beleaguered lion populations, including human encroachment on their habit...

Wildlife rangers in Nairobi on Friday hunted for two lions who escaped from Nairobi's national park and meandered into "highly populated" areas of the Kenyan capital.

People moved by the death of Zimbabwe's beloved Cecil the lion should donate to conservation efforts to save Africa's dwindling population of the giant cats, a professor who spent years tracking Cecil said on Wednesday.

Almost a month after devastating floods in Amreli, Gujarat left 10 Asiatic lions and hundreds of wild animals dead, forest officials are still taking stock of the big cat population

A new census in Gir forests has revealed that the population of the Asiatic lion in its only abode has risen by 52 to reach the figure of 411.

While the rest of India is fighting to save the tiger, the Gujarat government has announced an increase in its lion population at the Gir National Park. While conservationists say that this is a good sign of the park's health, they are worried that Asia's only lions could however, be in danger of being wiped out.