India's Asiatic Lions Have Gone From 12 to 891

Name: Lion Population (Estimates), India State-wise
Creator: The Maps Daily
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Lion Population (Estimates), India State-wise, Forest and Wildlife, Wildlife, India

The Asiatic lion survives in the wild only in India, in Gujarat's Gir landscape. Numbers fell to just 12 in 1880 under hunting pressure before protection reversed the trend. The population reached 287 by 1936, crossed 300 in the 1990s, and hit 891 in the 2025 census. All of this…

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SourceTable 3: District-wise populations of lions in the Asiatic Lion Landscape during lion population estimation 2025.

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