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Major Big Cats in Gujarat
November 24 , 2025
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- A wild tiger has permanently settled in Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuary, Gujarat, for nine continuous months.
- Gujarat now hosts all three big cats: the Asiatic lion, Indian leopard, and tiger within the same landscape.
- And Gujarat has now become the only place in India where all three big cats live together in the same natural landscape.
- Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuary is in Dahod district, Central Gujarat, along the Gujarat–Madhya Pradesh border.
- The sanctuary was declared in March 1982, covering 65 sq km of reserve forests across 11 villages, with 41 surrounding villages in the interaction zone.
- It has diverse forests, dense sloth bear populations, and habitats for leopard, palm civet, four-horned antelope, langurs, and more.
- The sanctuary forms the catchment of the Panam River and has conditions suitable for tiger habitation, showing ecosystem recovery.
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