Two lionesses on Tuesday were mowed down by a speeding goods train near the Gir forest on Surendranagar Pipavav port rail line in Amreli. "Two lionesses were mowed down by a high speed goods train early this morning near Berai village of Rajula taluka," deputy forest officer J K Makwana said.       Thk u all finaly the animals arerelocated to safe place

This is a first major incident of the big cats

being run over by train in recent times. Earlier, a cub was mowed down by a train on the same route over a year back. The site where the mishap took place is around 35-40 kms from the Gir forest, but the movement of lions is regularly witnessed in the area, Makwana said.A couple of lions were mowed down by a train in the Sasan forest area about 15 years back, following which trains on the rail line were cautioned to move at a slow pace, which resulted in minimising such accidents there Gir forest and surrounding areas house the last surviving population of Asiatic lions. As per the last census, the number of lions in and around Gir forest was 411.The remains of five Asiatic lions found buried in a private farm near the Gir Lion Sanctuary on Friday.

Forest officials say the lions, two of them cubs, were killed when they walked into an electrified fence put by the farmer.

Amreli Forest Officer J S Solanki says, "We monitor the pride regularly. We found the lions were missing, we were worried and searching intensely for them, our subordinate staff found them."

Wildlife authorities are not treating this as a case of poaching. But the farmer, Durlabh Vadodarya, has been arrested and will be booked under the Wildlife Protection Act for putting up the fence illegally.

If convicted, he could spend up to seven years in prison. Forest officials say they could have done little to prevent the deaths.

"It is our responsibility, but this is outiside our protected area? How far can we operate?," Solanki adds.

The Gir forest is the only remaining habitat in the world for Asiatic lions. There were more than 350 lions at the park in 2005. But the Wildlife Protection Society of India says 32 have died just this year - deaths this critically endangered species can ill-afford.Two more lions were found dead in the Gir sanctuary, Gujarat on Sunday. The incident takes the death toll of the endangered animals to 14, since February. On March 4, the carcass of two lionesses and a cub was found in Babariya range of the sanctuary with their claws and other body parts missing.

However this time, the lions were not killed for their skin or claws the forest officials told CNN-IBN. The carcasses were intact and unlike past incidents were not mutilated. The forest department officials said the lions could have died due to poisoning—possible by the local villagers, out of retaliation.

Police detained a man on Monday in connection with the lion poaching case where six endangered Asiatic Lions were found dead last month.The Asiatic lion of the Gir sanctuary, that is already the target of organised poaching, is facing another threat.

In the past one year alone, twelve lions have died because of falling into open wells located around the Gir sanctuary. Is this because the sanctuary is no longer an ideal habitat for the Asiatic lion?

An ignoble end for the king of the jungle. Last week, two rare Asiatic lions died after they strayed out of the Gir sanctuary in search of food and fell into a well in Rabarica village near Amreli. The owner of the well says he didn't have the money to build a boundary wall.

Rabarica Village farmer Chhagan Senjaliya says, "The forest department has now asked me to built a parapet wall. But they did a survey here long back ago, and did not give me a single rupee."

Unfortunately, deaths like these are being increasingly common. In the last one year, 12 lions have died of drowning in open wells located around the sanctuary. Wildlife watchers say the lions are moving out of the sanctuary, which is becoming too dense for good hunting.

Chalala Forest Club President Dr Vikram Bharad said, "Water and food are difficult to get in the jungle, and that is causing this migration. They easily get food in the revenue land. It easier to survive out of the sanctuary than inside it."

Forest department officials admit there's a problem. There are about 9000 wells around the sanctuary, which pose a clear danger to the lions. Officials say they are trying to educate farmers, and persuade them to either cover the wells or build walls around them.

Open wells are increasingly becoming death traps for the Gir lion. But the bigger question that the state government needs to answer is this - why is the Asiatic lion straying out of the Gir sanctuary.

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