Cheetah Reintroduction in India

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After 74 years, African cheetah will be populated again, this type of exercise is going on in Rajasthan 

The exercise to repopulate the African  Cheetah, which was extinct from India about 74 years ago, has been started in India. In this exercise, efforts were being made to repopulate the cheetahs in the forests of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. At present, the proposal to bring 10 cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh by November this year has got the green signal. Since then, it was believed that efforts to settle cheetah in Rajasthan have been foiled, but in response to a question asked by MLA Bharat Singh Kundanpur in the assembly, the Forest Department has made it clear that in the state. There is still hope of repopulating the cheetah. 

Questions were raised in the assembly regarding this. The question was asked whether the government is taking initiative to establish cheetah in the state with the Government of India? In response to this, it was said that in order to obtain consent from the State Government, the letter of Chief Wildlife Warden, Rajasthan, Jaipur has been approved to conduct a survey from 06 October 2020 to find out the possibilities of settling cheetah in Rajasthan. In response, it was said that Mukandra Tiger Reserve, Shergarh Wildlife Sanctuary and Bhaisrodgarh Wildlife Sanctuary area can be made suitable for cheetah settlement. 

It is clear from the question made in the assembly and the answer of the forest department that the efforts to settle the cheetah in the state are not completely over yet. Forest Minister Sukhram Vishnoi himself has told Nyuj 18 that efforts are on to bring cheetahs to Rajasthan. He is also talking to the Center for this and has also spoken to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for help in the matter. DN Pandey, the head of the state forest department, said that whatever is necessary will be done to bring cheetahs. There was a time when Rajasthan Cheetah was found in abundance. The habitat of the cheetah used to be in the open grasslands and its favorite prey include chinkara deer and black deer are also present in abundance in many parts of the state. 

The then Head of Forest Force UM Sahai, who visited the state along with MK Ranjit Singh, the chairman of the committee constituted to bring cheetahs to Rajasthan, told News18 that the crisis on the existence of cheetahs in the world is deepening. Efforts are being made to repopulate them in those areas where cheetahs used to live earlier. Fortunately, many areas of Rajasthan are still worthy of being re-populated there. Open grasslands are also present here for the free movement of cheetahs, while chinkara and black deer are also present in sufficient quantity for their hunting. However, in the first phase, 10 cheetahs are being brought to Madhya Pradesh. In this sequence, a total of 50 cheetahs are to be brought in the country and settled.  

Translated from google 

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