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Nov 11, 2023 · Project Cheetah, India's ambitious attempt to introduce African cheetahs in the wild in the country, has been completed a year after its launch in September 2022.
May 8, 2023 · The team observed that twenty cheetahs were successfully translocated to Kuno National Park (KNP) in September 2022 and February 2023 from southern Africa in the initial phase of an ambitious project to re-establish the species within its historical range in India.
Sep 18, 2023 · Project Cheetah is a program to reintroduce cheetahs to India. The project began in September 2022 and involves moving cheetahs from South Africa and Namibia to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The goal is to establish a self-sustaining population of cheetahs by bringing in 5-10 animals each year for the next decade.
Jan 7, 2022 · Cheetahs are coming back to India. 50 Cheetahs to be reintroduced in National Parks over five years, under 'Action Plan for Introduction of Cheetah in India’. Mumbai, 7 January 2022. India is going to be home once again to the majestic presence of cheetah, the world’s fastest land animal.
Jan 25, 2024 · To re-establish a viable and free-ranging cheetah population in India within what used to be their natural habitat in the country, the first eight cheetahs were transported to Madhya Pradesh’s...
Sep 17, 2023 · The story so far: The first batch of eight cheetahs from Namibia arrived on September 17, 2022, officially launching Project Cheetah, India’s cheetah introduction programme. An overview of the...
Sep 17, 2023 · Conservation breeding of Cheetah Centre, Cheetah Research Centre, Interpretation Centre, Cheetah Management Training Centre and Cheetah Safari are being planned. The two Namibian female cheetah, with wild origin but reared in captivity, are showing signs of wild behaviour due to re-wilding efforts.
The Government of India has decided to introduce the Cheetah, the only large carnivore species that went extinct in Independent India. The Cheetahs for release into the selected sites in India are sourced from the ancestral South African cheetah and Namibian populations depending on the suitability and continued ailability of animals.
Since the late 1980s, further plans were made to introduce members of related sub-species Southeast African cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus jubatus ). In 2022, as a part of Project Cheetah, cheetahs flown in from Namibia and South Africa were introduced to Kuno National Park in India.
Jul 20, 2023 · Recently, the use of radio collars in the cheetah reintroduction project in Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh, India, has resulted in unexpected setbacks, with cheetahs experiencing neck wounds and septicaemia, an infection of the blood by bacteria.
