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17/07/23 07:42 AM IST

Cheetah mortalities at Kuno National Park point

In News
  • Of the 20 translocated Cheetahs from South Africa and Namibia, five mortalities of adult individuals have been reported from Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh, till date.
Report Findings
  • As per the preliminary analysis by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), the apex body entrusted with the implementation of Project Cheetah, all mortalities are due to natural causes.
  • Global experience particularly from South Africa suggests that in the initial phase of reintroduction of Cheetah in African countries has resulted in more than 50% mortality of introduced Cheetahs.
  • The mortality of Cheetah may happen due to intra-species fights, diseases, accidents before release and post release.
  • Mortalities might also result from injury caused during hunting of prey, poaching, road hits, poisoning and predatory attack by other predators etc.
  • Considering all these eventualities the action plan has made provision for annual supplementation of initial founder population annually for managing the demographic and genetic composition of the reintroduced population.
Project Cheetah
  • The Government of India has launched the ambitious project on bringing back Cheetah to India.
  • The Project Cheetah is being implemented by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory body under Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) in collaboration with Madhya Pradesh Forest Department, Wildlife Institute of India (WII).
  • Under Project Cheetah, a total of 20 radio collared Cheetahs were brought from Namibia and South Africa to Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh, in a first ever transcontinental wild to wild translocation.
  • After mandatory quarantine period, all Cheetahs were shifted to larger acclimatization enclosures.
  • Currently, 11 Cheetahs are under free ranging condition and 5 animals, including a cub born on Indian soil, are within quarantine enclosures.
  • Each of the free ranging Cheetahs is being monitored round the clock by a dedicated monitoring team.
  • Government of India has deployed a dedicated NTCA team of officials to work in close coordination with the field officials at the Kuno National Park.
Source- PIB

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