Kolkata, Sep 2 (PTI) High-Commissioner of Namibia to India Gabriel Sinimbo on Saturday said that the deaths of several cheetahs brought from his country and South Africa to Madhya Pradesh are “normal” as the project involves introducing animals to a new environment.
It will take time to ‘rewild’ the three remaining cheetahs in the acclimatisation camps because they are from Namibia’s captive stock, the Committee’s chairman said.
While some experts have said the scientists raise the important point that Project Cheetah diverts conservation funds that indigenous species could have benefited from, others say they have ‘deliberately cherry-picked information’ from “spurious sources”.