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Human wildlife conflict and wildlife crime
Where wild animals and people meet, and where the law meets those who trade in wildlife: conflict and compensation, roads and railways through habitat, poaching, seizures and the smuggling of exotic animals. Prelims has asked which of a set of animals, the star tortoise among them, are found naturally in India.
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Lion attacks on people
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Lions living among people sometimes attack them, and a species found nowhere else offers no easy answer to that. Gujarat's answer is to take the animal out of the landscape rather than out of the population.
- It is creating a 100 ha enclosure for lions that have attacked people.
What changed
6 Aug 2026
11 Jul 2026Updatealso in news
- A lion killed a boy on Girnar Hill in Junagadh, a pilgrimage hill inside lion range, a marker of lions spreading well beyond the Gir core.
The Hindu, 11 Jul 2026: Lion kills 11-year-old boy on Girnar Hill in Gujarat (opens in a new tab)
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