The london Zoo is coming to the rescue of India’s endangered Gir lions with a 5.7-million-pound project as part of international efforts to save the Asian breed of the big cat.
The project by the Zoological Society of london (ZSl) that runs london Zoo includes plans to increase the size of its lion enclosure four-fold and fund conservation work on the last remaining wild population of Asiatic lions at Gir Forest National Park in Gujarat.
ZSl director David Field said the effort to increase the number of Asiatic lions from five to as many as 12 in a new enclosure will allow the zoo to play a greater part in a captive breeding programme in a drive to prevent the subspecies from going extinct.