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Option 3 : 2 only

The correct answer is 2 only.

  • The Gujarat Forest Department announced the population of Asiatic lions in the state increased from 523 to 674.
  • The Lion Census is conducted after every 5 years. Hence, Statement 2 is not correct.
  • Poonam Avlokan:
    • It is a monthly in-house exercise carried out every full moon.
    • Field staff and officers spend 24 hours assessing the number of lions and their locations in their respective jurisdictions.
    • It was a mechanism developed by the Forest Department in 2014 as part of preparations for the 2015 Lion Census.

  • The first Lion Census was conducted by the Nawab of Junagadh in 1936.
  • Since 1965, the Forest Department has been regularly conducting the lion census every five years.
  • The 6th, 8th and 11th Censuses were each delayed by a year, for various reasons.
  • The 2015 Census had counted 523 lions, up from 411 in 2010.
    • But 12 lions were killed in a flash flood in Amreli just a month after the 2015 census, followed by the deaths of more than two dozen lions in an outbreak of canine distemper virus (CDV) and babesiosis in 2018.
    • A babesiosis outbreak was reported in Gir (east) this summer too, and around two dozen lions are reported killed.
  • The Madhya Pradesh government had chosen Palpur-Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary as the site for the relocation of over 500 Asiatic lions.
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