Lion vs Tiger
- July 29, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Lion vs Tiger
Subject: Environment
Section: Biodiversity
Context: Starting in August, Cheetahs will be imported from Namibia and South Africa to Kuno National Park in MP to establish Cheetah into its “historical range”. Kuno is getting Cheetahs ostensibly to serve a host of grassland ecosystem services, all of which could be served by Lions, an apex species.
Concept:
Lion and Tiger
- These are from the four big cats (Lion, Tiger, Leopard, and Jaguar).
- Both are the most ferocious
- Both belong to the Felidae (cat) family.
- They reside on the top of the food chain and are apex predatorse., don’t have any predators of their own.
- India is the habitat of five big cats, namely, the Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris), the Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo), the Indian Leopard (Panthera pardus), the Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia), and the Indo-Chinese Clouded Leopard (Neofelisnebulosa).
- All the big cat species are listed in Schedule I of Wildlife Protection Act 1972ensuring the maximum protection and indicating that their habitats are in danger.
Lion vs Tiger
Lion | Tiger |
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Project lion
- Project Lion will involve conservation of the Asiatic Lion and its landscape in a holistic manner.
- The Project Lion will entail habitat development, engage modern technologies in Lion management and address the issues of disease in Lion and its associated species through advanced world-class research and veterinary care.
- The project will also address Human-wildlife conflict and will be inclusive involving local communities living in the vicinity of Lion landscape and will also provide livelihood opportunities.
- Asiatic lions were once distributed upto the state of West Bengal in east and Rewa in Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
- At present Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary is the only abode of the Asiatic lion.
- The last surviving population of the Asiatic lions is a compact tract of dry deciduous forest and open grassy scrublands in southwestern part of Saurashtra region of Gujarat.
- Listed in Schedule I of Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, in Appendix I of CITES and as Endangered on IUCN Red List.