Recent deaths of Cheetahs imported from Namabia created trouble for the Centre's ambitious project to habitat the big cats in India.
Cheetahs in Kuno: PM Modi released 1st batch of eight spotted felines from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at Kuno in Madhya Pradesh on September 17, 2022 under the ambitious programme.
Cheetah Jwala, relocated from South Africa, gave birth to four cubs in the last week of March this year.
The Supreme Court asked the Centre to rise above politics and consider shifting the big cats to Rajasthan.
Madhya Pradesh: A female cheetah named 'Daksha' brought from South Africa died in Kuno National Park on Tuesday.
The Cheetahs will be allowed to go out of the Kuno National Park (KNP) area and may not be "recaptured unless they venture into areas where they are in significant danger".
The cheetahs were translocated to India from Africa as part of an initiative to expand the cheetah meta-population and to reintroduce cheetahs to a former range state.
Madhya Pradesh: One of the cheetahs translocated from South Africa to Kuno National Park died on Sunday. The reason for death is yet to be ascertained.
After one month, a call would be taken on releasing cheetahs into the wild. Cursorial predators would be set free in an a phased manner, like two or three in the first batch after studying their behaviour.
The Namibian cheetah was rescued from a forest area in neighbouring Shivpuri district on Thursday evening.
Cheetahs in Kuno National Park: Forest department officials also shared a video in which staffers can be seen trying to coax Oban to get back into the forest.
Under the ambitious Cheetah reintroduction programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the first batch of eight spotted felines — five females and three males — from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at Kuno in Madhya Pradesh on his 72nd birthday on September 17 last year.
According to reports, It was found that cheetah Shasha was suffering from a kidney infection before she was brought to India.
Cheetahs at Kuno National Park: Cheetahs from South Africa released into MP's Kuno National Park after South Africa last month signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the re-introduction of Cheetahs in India to establish a viable cheetah population in the Asian country.
Cheetah health update: The cheetah, Sasha, is more than four-and-a-half years old and was diagnosed with hepatorenal, a kidney and liver-related infection, earlier this week.
Cheetah is the only large carnivore that got completely wiped out from India due to over-hunting and habitat loss.
Eight cheetahs from Namibia were released into the park in September last year as part of an ambitious project to revive the extinct cheetah population in the country.
Cheetahs in Kuno National Park: The eight were flown in from Namibia in southern Africa on September 17 as part of an ambitious species reintroduction project and they were released into their enclosures by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the same day.
मध्य प्रदेश के कूनो नेशनल पार्क में दो चीतों को बड़े बाड़े में छोड़ दिया गया है, ये चीते 50 दिनों से क्वारंटाइन में थे | जबकि 6 चीते अभी छोटे बाडे़ में ही रह रहे हैं | बताया जा रहा है कि धीरे-धीरे सभी चीतों को बडे़ बाड़े में छोड़ा जाएग, चीतों को बडे़ बाड़े में छोड़े जाने पर प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने भी ट्वीट कर खुशी जताई है | पीएम ने ट्वीट कर लिखा है बढ़िया खबर | ये जानकर खुशी हुई है कि सभी चीते हेल्दी हैं और एक्टिव हैं और अच्छी तरह से तालमेल बिठा रहे हैं ।
According to an official, two of the eight cheetahs were released in an acclimatisation enclosure of Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh's Sheopur district on Saturday.
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