Cheetah Reintroduction in India

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Madhya Pradesh forest officials will go to South Africa to learn how to take care of cheetah

In view of the improvement in the situation of corona infection in the country, work has started again on the project of bringing cheetah from South Africa. Now officials of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change  and Wildlife Institute of India Dehradun, including Chief Wildlife Warden of Madhya Pradesh Jasvir Singh Chauhan, are going to South Africa on February 17. These officers will stay there till February 23 and will decide when, how many, how and through what means the cheetahs will come to the country.

Cheetah is planned to be settled in Kuno Palpur National Park located in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh. The government had set a target of bringing cheetah by November 2021, but the process has been delayed due to corona infection. In fact, the forest officials of the country and the state were to go to South Africa in October 2021 to formulate a strategy to bring cheetah, but at the last moment the name of the Union Forest Minister was included in this list.

When the list reached the Prime Minister's Office, questions arose on the propriety of the visit of the Forest Minister. Due to this the journey was stopped. A fresh list was released in November 2021, removing the name of the Forest Minister, ie the officials were to go to South Africa in December 2021, but the third wave of corona started and the journey was stopped again. Now the journey has been decided for the third time.

After this visit of the officials, the field officers of Kuno Palpur National Park i.e. operator, ranger, doctor and two forest personnel will go on the journey. They will take training in the living and treatment of cheetah there.

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