As lions return, Barda gets new forest command. The lions are back in Barda after 143 years, and Gujarat is now redrawing the forest map around them. In a major administrative overhaul aimed at strengthening wildlife management in Porbandar, the state govt has restructured the Porbandar forest division, creating a sharper range-and-beat network, adding forest areas and deploying two assistant conservators of forests to oversee the expanded landscape.