Ahmedabad: The lion number in Gujarat has officially crossed 700 this year, registering a 6-8% increase in the population, the resource said in the State Forestry Department.
This increase was recorded in the ‘Poonam Avlokan’ (population observation exercises during the full moon).
This exercise was first held last year in June as a substitute for a lion of the 2020 census due to the Pandemic Covid-19.
The Gujarat Forest Department official said that the lion population could be between 710 and 730.
Officials said that the calculation exercise would be made an annual affair so that the lion number was published every year than every five years.
Avsokan Poonam 2020 at Lion Landscape has recorded 674 Royal Beasts with a rate of 28.9% during 2019.
Previously high at the growth rate was 27% in 2015 for 2010.
2015 counts were 523 lions.
“We are still analyzing data,” said a senior forest department officer in Gandhinagar.
“However, the preliminary indication is that the lion population has crossed 700-mark, which is a healthy sign for conservation.” Officials said that the number of 2020 has revealed the ratio of adult women in adult women to 1: 1.61 and the ratio of adult women to Cub to 1: 0.53.
This ratio has not changed dramatically.
Officials said that the mountaine of breastfeeding lions (adult females with their children was less than one year) was also carried out.
This data is being studied.
Of the 260 adult women, 23% were recorded for breastfeeding in June 2020.
Officials said that the count of 2021 had revealed that the range of lions stretched 30,000 square kilometers and they did not submit new areas over the past year over the past year for the past year.
The distribution of lions has increased from an area of ​​around 22,000 square kilometers in 2015 to around 30,000 square kilometers in 2020, represents a 36% expansion in the range.
Officials in Gandhinagar said that the lion population remained the same in Gir, Mentalily, Girnar, and Pania Succuaries.
Population growth especially in zones outside of nature reserves.