Express news service : New Delhi, Tue Apr 03 2012, 03:50 hrs
The Gujarat government on Monday opposed in the Supreme Court any
effort by the Centre to translocate Asiatic lions from its Gir sanctuary
to Kuno Palpur wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh.
Appearing before a Forest Bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and
C K Prasad, senior advocate Shyam Divan said the state had sufficient
wherewithal and will to conserve the lions’ population and it was not
advisable to trans-locate them.
The state said that efforts should be made for translocation of
the cheetah from South Africa to Kuno Palpur instead, and lions should
be added gradually after sufficient time.
The Gujarat government is fighting a battle in the Supreme Court
against the translocation of lions in the wake of a PIL filed by an
environment group seeking their translocation to Madhya Pradesh.
At an earlier hearing, the Gujarat government had argued against
the need to move the Asiatic lions from Gir. This had prompted the
Supreme Court to observe that the big cats were not the “property” of
the state, but belong to the country.
The opposition from the state comes despite the National Board
for Wildlife (NBWL) also voting against the Gujarat government’s
reluctance to shift the lions.
Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Don-t-shift-Gir-lions-to-MP--Gujarat-to-SC/931718/
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