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    Endangered population: How Tauktae cyclone scare flagged concerns for Gir’s lions

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    Gir’s lions may have escaped the Tauktae fury, but the cyclone scare has flagged the risk of keeping the entire endangered population in one region.

    In the wake of the tropical cyclone Tauktae battering Gujarat in all its fury last week, a curious sequence of events unfolded in the state, involving some of its most famous residents, the Asiatic lions. First came news reports that 18 lions were missing from Gir Somnath and other districts in the Saurashtra region across which over 600 lions are distributed, the sole remaining population of the Asiatic lion in the wild. In less than 48 hours,
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