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14/09/22 13:54 PM IST

Reintroduction of Cheetahs at Kuno National Park

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  • As a part of the Cheetah reintroduction program, eight cheetahs from Africa will be shifted to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno-Palpur National Park by helicopter on September 17.
About the re-introduction 
  • The Government is planning to reintroduce cheetahs, which became extinct in India in 1952.
  • Asiatic cheetahs became extinct in India because of habitat loss, shrinking prey base, climate change and growing human population.
  • Currently, Iran is the only country in the world to have living population of Asiatic cheetahs.
  • India has been planning to introduce cheetahs since the 1960s and 1970s.
  • However, this plan never came to fruition as Tehran refused to part with the critically low population of Asiatic Cheetahs.
  • African cheetahs are slightly larger than their Asian counterparts. They are found all across Africa and are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN’s Red List.
  • The first batch of African cheetahs would comprise of four females and four males.
  • Cheetahs would be released and monitored within a 500 hectares of land that would be enclosed by an electrical fence.
Kuno National Park 
  • Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh was established in 1981 as wildlife sanctuary and was later given the status of national park in 2018.
  • It was named after Kuno River, one of the major tributaries of the Chambal River.
  • This river flows through the entire length, bisecting the national park.
  • It was chosen by Wildlife Institute of India and Wildlife Trust of India as a possible habitat for the reintroduction of cheetahs.
Source- Live Mint 

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