The Cat Women of Gir Forest: Modi's pride of women guards is working wonders in the Asiatic lion's last abode

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The Cat Women of Gir Forest

Modi's pride of women guards is working wonders in the
Asiatic lion's last abode

By Devika Chaturvedi
India Today
April 19, 2013

Raseela Vadher knows no fear. Unafraid, she ventures into
Gir forest peering intently through the bush looking for
signs of trouble. It is not the presence of wild animals
that bothers her. She is on the lookout for poachers,
illegal gangs felling prized teak trees, or local
tribesmen lighting fires that could set the jungle
ablaze.

Remember the young woman forest guard Narendra Modi so
proudly described to FICCI'S women entrepreneurs in Delhi
on April 8? "More than lions, visitors are amazed at the
sight of this gutsy girl who fearlessly walks amid a
pride of wild lions," he said.

Just 26 years old and already a veteran of the Gujarat
government's extraordinary initiative to protect the only
natural abode of the Asiatic lion, Vadher is that young
woman. From a poor family of Junagadh's Bhanduri village,
she signed up as a forest guard in August 2008 and has by
now been out on over a thousand successful missions,
including about 350 to rescue lions in distress. She
loves the forest and this is her dream job.

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