Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said the state could not have a greater gift than the arrival of eight cheetahs from Namibia.
The special chartered cargo flight, carrying 8 cheetahs from Namibia, landed at the Indian Air Force Station in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. A tiger-faced B747 Jumbo jet was used to ferry eight cheetahs from Namibia, who will be introduced into the Indian wildlife by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday.The introduction of the fastest land animal in India is being done under Project Cheetah, which is world's first inter-continental large wild carnivore translocation project, said a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Thursday. Stay tuned with India Today for all live updates.
Cheetahs are back: Eight cheetahs five females and three males, aged between two and six years, are African Cheetahs. The cheetahs indigenous to India that went extinct are Asiatic Cheetahs, and are only found in Iran.