A South African delegation, including wildlife experts, will arrive in February to assess the conditions at Madhya Pradesh's Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary which is slated to become the second home of cheetahs in India, officials said on Thursday.
Bhopal, Jan 3 (PTI) Namibian cheetah Aasha has given birth to three cubs at the Kuno National Park (KNP) located in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, a Union minister said on Wednesday.
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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”.
Madhya Pradesh chief wildlife warden J S Chauhan confirmed that the state made multiple requests to the NTCA in the last couple of months for shifting cheetahs.