On May 21, the forest department of the western Indian state of Gujarat released results of the country’s first lion population estimation since 2020. According to the census, India’s wild lion ...
(CNN) — Five-year-old Pulsing Ajnera was playing with his brothers in a field near their home in the western Indian state of Gujarat, when a lion “came out of nowhere,” his grieving father told CNN.
India’s Asiatic lion population rose from 674 in 2020 to 891 in 2025, a jump of 32.2%, according to the 16th Lion Population Estimation report released on Sunday. The number of adult females has ...