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GIR ECO TOURISM & GIR NATIONAL PARK
Gir Eco Tourism is a private travel company who provide all kind of travel services to explore Gir and near by cities. We provide services of Tour Packages, Hotels Booking and Safari Tour. It is our constant endeavor whenever our guest is exploring a city or tourist destination then we want that they don't miss any excursion activty so, some excursion services we provide on request on the spot.
Gir National Park Tourism is one of wonderful destination for a wild animals' lover who provide a scenic view of wildlife sanctuary. Gir National Park Safari area is a world famous wildlife sanctuary that is known for Asiatic Lions, this breed of lion is found here in the entire globe. Sasan Gir national park is a small part of Gir forest which is scattered on 1412 km2 area.
This forest is located at the foothills of Girnar and it touches to the 4 districts of Gujarat such as Somnath, Junagarh, Keshod and Amreli. This is believed a dry deciduous forest in which consist features like grassland, hills and river. Girnar hills is also a part of the Gir forest which is believed holy place for Jainism and apart from Girnar, there are flowing four major rivers like, Hiran river, Shetrunji, Datardi and Raval. These are major water sources for wild animals and native people of Sasan Gir where government established Gir National Park on the area of 259 km2 in the 1965 now adays Gujarat’s government is operating jeep safari to explore Gir national park what housing of more than 2600+ species such as 300 Leopards, 37 species of Reptiles, 38 species of Mammals, 300 species of Birds and 2000+ species of insects.
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HISTORY
Before the establishing of Sasan Gir National Park, It was known by Gir forest that was operated by British Government before 1947. British’s troopers hunted to Asiatic lions and other animals in the forest and the lions were left 20 only during 1913, then Nawab of Junagadh and British’s officers ran a campaign to conserve the lions and entire wildlife sanctuary and they restricted hunting for everyone and provided lots of facilities to animals so that they can expand their population.
After that it was managed by the Indian government and Gujarat government developed numerous options to make the Gir wildlife more safe for wild animals such as they established lion reserve area in 1965, this lion reserve area is scattered on 259 km2 that is small part of entire Gir Forest. This lion reserve area is known by Gir National Park and forest department built so many small water pounds here, planted many trees, give them bigger area in order to animals can move easily on their land. Even, forest department taught to native people regarding importance of nature and told them role of each plant and animals in our life cycle and so on. Now adays 550 lions are flourishing in the national park and the total populations are 1,60,000+ which is better as compare to historic data.
Presently Gujarat forest department is providing a chance to explore Gir Safari park which is believed lion reserve area. Forest department is managing wildlife safari permits that help to go into the forest with a open jeep that you will have to Book Online through Gir Eco Tourism's website. This safari provides you 90 to 99% chances to see the Asiatic lions what is very high chances as compare to other national parks.
