India signs pact with S Africa to bring 12 cheetahs in February

India signs pact with S Africa to bring 12 cheetahs in February

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Category : International Published on: January 30 2023

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  • India has signed an agreement with South Africa to translocate 12 cheetahs to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
  • Seven male and five female cheetahs are expected to reach Kuno by February 15.
  • Cheetah is the only large carnivore that got completely wiped out from India due to over-hunting and habitat loss.
  • The last cheetah died in Koriya district of present-day Chhattisgarh in 1947 and the species was declared extinct in 1952.
  • Under the Cheetah reintroduction programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had released the first batch of eight eight spotted felines – five females and three males – from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at Kuno on his 72nd birthday on September 17 last year.
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