Lioness in Gir national Park. See Indian Lion (Panthera leo persica) pug marks in the sand, even as a Maldhari woman approaches her village settlement. Since the population of Indian Lions is restricted to Gir, there has been a movement in Indian wildlife circles to move a small population outside the state of Gujarat, to create a buffer in the event of disease. However, Gujarati pride has prevented lions being transferred out to the Kuno Palpur area of Madhya Pradesh, which has awaited them for long now! The Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary is a forest and wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, India. Established in 1965, with a total area of 1412 km² (about 258 km² for the fully protected area (the National Park) and 1153 km² for the Sanctuary), the park is located 65 km to the south-east of Junagadh and 60 km to south west of Amreli. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and [email protected].