AHMEDABAD: Gujarat, known to be the sole abode of the Asiatic lions in the whole world, is quickly turning into a sanctuary for rescued leopards.
After getting leopards out of Assam, the rescue center in Jamnagar is anticipated to get leopards out of Himachal Pradesh and also Uttarakhand.
Officials at the nation said that Uttarakhand had suggested to ship six leopards into Gujarat from the very first stage.
On the other hand, the Jamnagar rescue center has not been advised by the Central Zoo Authority of India of the choice.
Even the Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Kingdom, that will be possessed by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), is reportedly the very first public-private partnership (PPP) between a state government and a private entity in handling the leopard public.
Parimal Nathwani Director, Corporate Affairs, RIL stated,”The center already has 71 large cats of that two black leopards were shipped out of Assam.
We can adapt 108 leopards in the middle that’s spread across 14 acres” When asked regarding new developments, he stated,”We’ve not received any communication by Uttarakhand.
But we did receive verbal communication out of Himachal Pradesh and so are awaiting a written one.
Lately, we got a question from Maharashtra authorities, inquiring if the center could home predator rescued in Maharashtra.” The center has physicians, caretakers and also a lab to care for the huge cats,” he added.
CZAI sources stated they have obtained several requests from several nations to move leopard into other rescue centers in different nations.
The officials stated,”As examples of man-animal struggle climbs in Nainital at Uttarakhan, the amount of predator rescued was considerably greater.
Hence, we’re made to move it to other nations.” Officials from the nation said,”Gujarat is also confronting an dilemma of home leopards because the nation was devoting more than 400-odd leopards at annually.
Many of these had assaulted humans and cannot be released to the wild.
The rising leopard population and increase in man-animal battle gets the state concerned.
The country wildlife board has already approved a proposition to neuter captured leopards then discharging them.” The officials stated that the predator population in the wild will probably be roughly 3,200 at Gujarat.
That is over twice the amount in the previous census completed in 2016.
Gujarat has a complete population of 1,395 leopards in accordance with the statewide census completed in 2016.
The official stated that the census is expected any moment however because of corona, the division has not started any procedure for its census.