MUMBAI: Bombay natural History Society (BNHS) announced support to the Supreme Court's recent judgment permitting translocation of some of the endangered Asiatic lions from Gujarat's Gir National Park to KunoPalpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. BNHS said that it was a good and essential step for the long-term survival of the species. BNHS India, terms this type of re-introduction as "Human Assisted Dispersal", which means re-introduction of a species to some part of its former range through human intervention. The belie is that many other threatened species can be conserved using this approach wherever it is necessary and appropriate to do so.
The re-introduction of Asiatic Lions in some part of their former range, which once existed from West Asia to eastern parts of India, has long been debated at various levels. Commenting on the re-introduction of Asiatic Lions in Kuno Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary, Asad Rahmani, Director, BNHS said ""It is a very good development and we welcome the move. Relocating some lions is a wonderful idea for the long-term survival of the species and should have been done much earlier".
Explaining the rationale, he added that the region where the re-introduction would take place was formerly a part of the natural range of Asiatic Lions. Lions are adaptable animals and can withstand high temperatures that are observed in central India. They were also found in a wide range of habitats and climatic conditions in their former range across Asia.
A BNHS statement said that whenever natural dispersal of wild species is not possible any longer due to lack of habitat corridors because of human activities and settlements, it is essential to have Human Assisted Dispersal. Rahmani said that although there has been good growth in the numbers of Asiatic Lions in Gujarat following conservation measures, there are no forest corridors available at present for the animals to disperse to other areas of their former range in other states. In such cases Human Assisted Dispersal is required. The same can be used for other threatened species on case to case basis.
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