The Gir forest, the only place the Asiatic lion survives in the wild, is in which state?

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Gir, in the Junagadh region of Gujarat, holds the world's only wild population of the Asiatic lion.
The population fell to a few dozen a century ago and has recovered under protection.
Keeping the whole population in one place is itself the main risk to it.

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That single-population risk is why establishing a second home for the species has been discussed for decades.

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