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Why the Lion reintroduction project? [1]

Isolated populations of endangered species are at much greater risk compared to populations that are well distributed. The risk is even more acute if the species in question survives as a single, small population confined to a single locality. Currently Asiatic lions (Panthera leo persica) are up against precisely such odds. July 2007

Publication Date: 
01/07/2007
Manoj Mishra [2]
Zoos' Print [3]
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Endangered Species [4], Lion [5], Gir NP [6], Relocation [7], India [8], Gujarat [9]
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