Last year, on January 17, Bhavesh Trivedi, assistant programme coordinator of Gujarat Ecological Education and Research (GEER) Foundation, Gandhinagar, was guiding a batch of participants at a nature education camp organised by Sky Forest Youth Club in Batheshwar area in Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary (GNPWLS) when a bird sighting piqued his curiosity.
The court of R M Chawda, judicial magistrate first class of Sutrapada, pronounced seven men guilty of attempting to hunt the lion and jackal on February 3, 2021 at Khambha village in Veraval range of Gjr Somnath territorial forest division.
Even as growing population of Asiatic lions in Gujarat’s Gir is becoming deadly for humans as well as cattle, the state government is in no mood to transfer them to other states.