MLA links Gir poaching to claw fashion

There are more than 5,000 men in the Saurashtra wearing lion claws, said Babra BJP MLA Bavkubhai Unghad in House on Tuesday. The allegation came a day after the Forest Department confirmed that two lionesses and a cub had been killed by poachers.

Unghad was speaking on his special calling attention motion in the Assembly on the issue of two lion cub deaths in Dhari on February 24. Unghad said it was fashionable in Saurashtra to wear lion claws, and sought to know from the government whether it intended to investigate a possible connection between increasing lion deaths and the trend.