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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.835
TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.12.2015
Number of lions in the country
835.
SHRI K.C. TYAGI:
Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to
state:
(a) whether it is a fact that the Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary in western Gujarat
is the only habitat for the asiatic lion;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) what is the census figures of living wild animals particularly lions in the country, Statewise and forest-wise?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND
CLIMATE CHANGE
(SHRI PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)
(a)and (b) The Asiatic lions are found in Gir Protected Areas including Gir, Paniya,
Mitiyala and Girnar Sanctuaries and Gir National Park in Gujarat.
(c)
The census of all wild animals is not undertaken in the country. However
census of tiger is undertaken at the national level once every four years and
census of a few other major flagship species is undertaken at the State-level
by the respective State/Union Territory governments. As per the latest
census, the estimated population of tiger, elephant, lion and rhinoceros as
received from the States is given in the Annexure.
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ANNEXURE
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE RAJYA
SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 835 REGARDING ‘NUMBER OF
LIONS IN THE COUNTRY’BY SHRI K.C. TYAGI DUE FOR REPLY ON
07.12.2015.
Estimated landscape level population of tiger
Name of State
Shivalik-Gangetic Plain Landscape complex
Uttarakhand
Uttar Pradesh
Bihar
Shivalik-Gangetic
Tiger population
340
117
28
485(427-543)
Central Indian Landscape Complex and
Eastern Ghats Landscape Complex
Andhra Pradesh (including Telangana)
68
Chhattisgarh
46
Madhya Pradesh
308
Maharashtra
190
Odisha
28
Rajasthan
45
Jharkhand**
3+
Central India
688(596-780)
Western Ghats Landscape Complex
Karnataka
Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Goa
Western Ghats
406
136
229
5
776 (685-861)
North Eastern Hills and Brahmaputra Flood
Plains
Assam
167
Arunachal Pradesh
28*
Mizoram
3+
North West Bengal
3
201(174-212)
North East Hills and Brahmaputra
Sunderbans
76(92-96)
TOTAL
2226(1945-2491
+ -From scat DNA
*- From Camera trap data and scat DNA.
**- Much of the tiger occupied areas could not be surveyed owing to Naxal
problem
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE RAJYA
SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 835 REGARDING ‘NUMBER OF
LIONS IN THE COUNTRY’BY DUE FOR REPLY ON 07.12.2015.
Estimated Population of Rhinoceros as reported by State
Name of the State
Assam
Uttar Pradesh
West Bengal
No. of Rhinoceros (year
of census)
2505 (2012)
30
229 (2013)
Estimated Population of Lion as reported by the state Government of
Gujarat
Name of state
Gujarat
Population of Lion
523 (2015)
Population of Rhinoceros as reported by State
ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE RAJYA
SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 835 REGARDING ‘NUMBER OF
LIONS IN THE COUNTRY’BY DUE FOR REPLY ON 07.12.2015.
Population of wild elephants as reported by State
Sl. No.
*
States Elephant population
2012
1.
2.
3.
4.
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Meghalaya
Nagaland
890
5620
1811 *
212
5.
6.
7.
Tripura
West Bengal
Jharkhand
59
647
688
8.
9.
Orissa
Chhattisgarh
1930
247
10.
11.
12.
Uttarakhand
Uttar Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
1346 *
291
4015
13.
14.
Karnataka
Kerala
15.
16.
Andhra Pradesh
Maharashtra
5648-6488
5942-6422
41
4
29391 - 30711
Meghalaya and Uttarakhand has not conducted elephant census after 2007.
Therefore the figure of 2007 has been maintained for 2012 as well.
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