The reason it has taken so long, The Hindu reports in an article titled The lion is an Indian, not a Gujarati by Neha Sinha, is that this battle “has been understood as a battle between Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.” This is a landmark ruling in many instances – first, because it puts the well-being of a species into the jurisdiction of the entire country, removing the species from solely a State ownership.

This proposal has been discussed since 2009 and it is only now that this decision has been made. Recently the Supreme Court of India ruled that Gujarat a portion of the lion population is to be shifted to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno-Palpur wildlife sanctuary. Although genetically distinct from the African lion, the difference is not large. The Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) is a sub-species which can only be found in a single location in the wild – the Gir forest in Gujarat, India. It is not a well-known fact that India plays home to a population of lions as usually lions are associated with the African savannah and not the scrub forests of the subcontinent.

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