"lion numbers falling" : true

"too many lions": true

Hows that possible?

In absolute terms there is no questions that number of lions has fallen ; i mean decimated.

However the amount of forest cover etc has also fallen.

Hence compared to how much land Gir lion sanctury has, the lion number is too many. Hence they venture out to the villages for cattle and other animals.

In most wildlife parks including project tiger ones one can see people chopping trees illegally openly in daylight. When i told the ranger, he told me to comlain to the headquarters and so on. Nothing is done. The forest cover in india is in single digits (some sources say 4-5%. Im not surprised.

Now its too late (maybe) to try to increase the numbers of wild life animals. No place to put them in except zoos where they are tortured and taunted by the public, where it is a 'done and an acceptable practice' to throw stones, pebbles, nuts etc at tigers till they roar and then roar back at them or clap and laugh and repeat the process all over again till you are tired and the next group of visitors cant wait any longer to do the same.

Sorry to sound pessimistic but its a fact.