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Madhya Pradesh: Two more cheetahs released to larger enclosures

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Forest department released two more cheetahs to larger enclosures successfully on Sunday. 

Officials informed that Tbilisi
 and Asha were released into 
Boma No 6 and 7 respectively between 3pm to 5pm as stage-II of their familiarization with the new habitat. 

Senior officials including Amit Mallik from NTCA, Y V Jhala from WII-Dehradun, chief wildlife warden of MP J S Chauhan and DFO (Kuno) P K Verma were present to monitor the proceedings.

Under stage-2 of their acclimatisation plan, brothers Elton and Freddie were first to be released on November 6 into the larger Boma-4 from their quarantine pen, where they had been held and fed since arriving on September 17. 

Almost 12 days after cheetah rockstars, the third male cheetah named Oban was released on November 18. Oban has been shifted to Boma-8 after approval from the Cheetah Special Task Force. 

Oban is the wild-born grandson of a cheetah rehabilitated by CCF at Erindi Private Game Reserve in Namibia. As a second-generation cheetah born in the wild, Oban is an excellent hunter, and Oban has very good chances of adapting to life in India.

The shifting of the three other cheetahs, however, depends on the approval of the task force. 




Officers are at ease since camera traps revealed a sixth leopard moving out of the enclosure. It was the capture of this female leopard that delayed the state-2, said sources. Teams had been trying to trap the leopard with snares and release her outside the enclosure for long.  


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