Worlds last Asiatic lions may suffer under grip of Gujarat

July 10, 2012 14:36

A peacock shrieks. A monkey scrambles higher into the fire-colored canopy of a kesudo tree. And an Asiatic lion -- one of the last few hundred in the wild '" pads across the dusty earth of a west Indian sanctuary that is its only refuge from the modern world. Read the Washington Post report on the end of the Gir sanctuary.

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