Cheetahs are ‘adapting well’ at Kuno national park: Bhupender Yadav

New Delhi: Union Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Sunday informed that all the 8 Cheetahs that were introduced in the Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh are “adapting well”.

The Minister was on a visit to the national park to review the work being done by the researcher, scientists, and forest officials after the Cheetahs were trans-located in the national park from Namibia.  

“Happy to note all 8 Cheetahs are adapting well and the vision of PM Shri @narendramodi ji of turning an ecological wrong into ecological harmony is taking shape” the minister tweeted.

The Minster also held a review meeting with the officials at the Kuno National Park on Sunday.   The Cheetahs were introduced in India under “Project Cheetah” in November this year, which is the world’s first inter-continental large wild carnivore translocation project. Out of the eight Cheetahs there are five female and three male Cheetahs.

The cheetah was declared extinct from India in 1952. The Cheetahs that would be released are from Namibia and have been brought under a MoU signed earlier this year.

The country is also expected to get 12 more cheetahs from South Africa in the coming months, but the paperwork between the two countries is yet to be finalised.

The Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952 after Maharaja Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo shot the last offspring of the species in 1947.