2 more Asiatic lions found dead in Gir sanctuary

Times of India , Sunday, April 01, 2007
Correspondent : Staff Reporter
RAJKOT: Two more Asiatic lions in Gir Sanctuary were reported dead on Saturday evening taking the toll, on account of poaching, natural deaths and falling into wells, to 14 from February 24 to March 31.

Forest officials, who are their wits end investigating the incidents of poaching of the big cats on March 3 and March 29, insisted that the lion and a cub found dead were not poached.

Forest guards found a carcass of a lion, around three to four years old, near Timbarava beat under Tulsishyam range of Gir sanctuary on the bank of Raval river.

Sources said that all the 18 claws, skin of and the bones were intact. The injuries that the lion bore might be on account of a fight with another animal, sources added. In another incident, a two to three months old cub found dead near Chotalia beat under Dedkiyali range is suspected to have died of starvation. No injuries were found on the carcass, forest officials said.

 
SOURCE : Times of India, Sunday, April 1, 2007
 


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