The eight enclosures will be set up in 500 hectares of area. Kuno National Park officials have been asked to inform about the latest developments regarding preparation of enclosures by November 5, sources said
The Union environment ministry has constituted a nine-member task force for monitoring the reintroduction of cheetahs into the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
Apart from working to bring Cheetahs to India under various government's since 2009, Jhala was the lead author of the 2022 Cheetah Action Plan and even led the technical negotiations with biologists in Namibia and South Africa.
Indian Environment Minister Bhupendra Singh has announced that the Environment Ministry will introduce 50 cheetahs into Indian forests over the next five years, 70 years after they went extinct. He unveiled a plan for the introduction of Cheetah