Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1 in the passage: "The Kuno Palpur National Park, located in Madhya Pradesh's Cham...

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1 in the passage: "The Kuno Palpur National Park, located in Madhya Pradesh's Chambal (1)__________, has an area of 750 square kilometres."

The Kuno Palpur National Park, located in Madhya Pradesh's Chambal (1), has an area of 750 square kilometres. It now
has leopards, jackals, spotted deer, sambhar, neelgai, chinkara, wild boar, and four-horned antelope, making it a perfect
(2) base for felids. Despite strong objections from Gujarat, which (3)________ that lions were part of the state's heritage,
that MP had a poor (4)________ in wildlife management, and that Kuno Palpur had other big cat species that would (5)___________
lion relocation, the sanctuary was chosen for the lion reintroduction project in 2013.