Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government on Tuesday announced that a tiger had been spotted in the Lunawada forests in Mahisagar district, making the state the only one in the country to host all the three major big cat species: lions, tigers and leopards.

State Forest Minister Ganpat Vasava said the image of a seven to eight-year-old tiger was caught in the night vision cameras for the first time in about three decades. A tiger was last seen in south Gujarat's Dangs forests in the late 1980s but disappeared and every four-year surveys by the Forest Department later ruled out their presence anywhere in the state.