Cheetah Reintroduction in India

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12 Cheetahs brought from South Africa savour their meal, appear playful

It has been 46 hours since 12 cheetahs from South Africa were brought into Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur. They were seen frolicking in their quarantine enclosure.

In the 46 hours, a team of doctors went to the quarantine enclosures six times for health checkups of the cheetahs, in which they were found to be physically and mentally fit. They were also served food and water after their arrival.

The cheetahs spent the second day in a fun-filled atmosphere. The experts are assuming that cheetahs will soon adapt to the new environment.

After traveling 7,929 km from Johannesburg, South Africa, the 12 cheetahs (5 females and 7 males) reached Kuno National Park on February 18. They were released by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in the quarantine enclosures built in the park.

The cheetahs have been kept under surveillance in the quarantine enclosures of Kuno National Park.

'CHEETAHS SEEN HAVING FUN'

DFO of Kuno National Park Prakash Kumar Verma told Aaj Tak, “Cheetahs from South Africa are healthy in the quarantine enclosures of the park. After traveling a long way, they were seen having fun. The big cats drank water and ate meat on time. The monitoring team is continuously keeping an eye on their health”.

The 12 cheetahs arrived on Saturday and were released into quarantine enclosures at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district, five months after the first batch of eight of these fastest land animals were brought there from Namibia, another African nation.

Their inter-continental translocation is part of the Indian government's ambitious programme to reintroduce these animals in the country seven decades after they became extinct. The country's last cheetah died in Koriya district of present-day Chhattisgarh in 1947 and the species was declared extinct in 1952.

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