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Twelve cheetahs on Friday departed from South Africa for India as part of an initiative to expand the cheetah meta-population and to reintroduce cheetahs to a f
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Fifteen cheetahs 12 from South Africa and three from Namibia are about to embark on a 9,000km journey to India, where the government hopes to restore that country’s extinct population of the charismatic species.
A novice rider who spent the first lockdown at a South African horseback safari centre had ridden 25 horses and was jumping 1m by the time he reached home and is now continuing his showjumping career.
Saúl Castro Gómez and Susannah Shelley left their home in the UAE on 13 March last year, for a holiday at Horizon Horseback, in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve.
“Then the world changed,” Saúl told
H&H. “We flew to South Africa, and it was the week we were there that everything changed. We left for a week and ended up staying for four months.”