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Fourteen of Ashoka's Major Rock Edicts, dating to circa 250 BCE, are inscribed on a large boulder that is housed in a small building located outside the town of Junagadh on Saurashtra peninsula in the state of Gujarat, India. It is located on Girnar Taleti road, at about 2 km (1.2 mi) far from Uperkot Fort easterly, some 2 km before Girnar Taleti.
Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area located in the Junagadh district of Gujarat, India. Nestled within the Girnar hills, it serves as a crucial habitat for several endangered species, most notably the Asiatic lion. The sanctuary was officially declared a protected area in 2008 to preserve its rich biodiversity and unique ecosystem. [1 ...
A family of Asiatic lions at Gir National Park. The Gujarat state of western India has four National Parks and twenty-three wildlife sanctuaries which are managed by the Forest Department of the Government of Gujarat. [1] [2] [3]
Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, also known as Sasan Gir, is a forest, national park, and wildlife sanctuary near Talala Gir in Gujarat, India. It is located 43 km (27 mi) north-east of Somnath , 65 km (40 mi) south-east of Junagadh and 60 km (37 mi) south-west of Amreli .
Damodar Kund (Gujarati: દામોદર કુંડ), located at the foothills of Girnar hills, near Junagadh in the Indian state of Gujarat, is considered a sacred lake as per Hindu beliefs. Many Hindus prefer to bathe here and immerse the ashes and the bones left after cremation of dead bodies, here at Damodar Kund due to a belief that ...
Then state Chief Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone. As the project was located within the Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park, the wildlife clearance was granted by the National Board for Wildlife in 2011 while the environmental clearance was granted by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of India in 2016.
Mount Girnar is also declared a forest reserve for bamboo. Girnari Giddh, the long-billed vultures, are found only on Girnar, as the Girnar region alone accounts for about 25 per cent of the species and about 10 per cent of the total vulture population in the Gujarat state.
The highest of these is Girnar. The hills are home to an enclave of tropical dry broadleaf forest. [5] Gir National Park and its surroundings host the last remaining Asiatic lion population. [6] [7] Other national parks in Kathiawar are Blackbuck National Park, Velavadar on the Gulf of Cambay, and Marine National Park, Gulf of Kutch, near Jamnagar.