In distressing news from Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park, the untimely death of a male cheetah this morning (July 14) marks the eighth fatality among the big cat population in approximately five months. Suraj, an African cheetah, was found lifeless at Kuno in the early hours of the morning.
12 cheetahs were transported from South Africa as part of the Indian Government Project Cheetah, and they arrived in the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh s Sheopur region on Saturday. Special accommodations have been prepared for their relocation and stay at the park. It comes months after PM Modi transported eight cheetahs from Namibia and let them loose in the national park to restore and improve India s biodiversity. According to sources, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, and Bhupender Yadav, the environment minister, would release the cheetahs into their quarantine cages in the Kuno National Park. Jyotiraditya Scindia and Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will both be present. Keep watching Mirror Now.#bhopal #madhyapradesh #cheeta #southafrica #latestnews
8 Cheetahs that were flown from Hosea Kutako International Airport in Windhoek, Namibia to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh via helicopter into special enclosure.
On September 16, the modified passenger B-747 Jumbo Jet airplane took off from Hosea Kutako International Airport in Windhoek, Namibia till Jaipur. The cheetahs will be reaching Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh via a helicopter.
World Wildlife Day: Cheetahs, which once roamed across much of India and West Asia, are now confined to just a few dozen animals in remote regions of Iran. The big cat was declared extinct in India over 70 years ago. The world s fastest land mammal is considered vulnerable under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) s red list of threatened species, with a declining population of less than 7,000 found primarily in African savannas. However, on Wednesday, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government was working on re-introduction of Cheetah. This big cat will be a reality soon, he tweeted on World Wildlife Day.