Ashish Ranjan
One of the Namibian cheetahs has given birth to four cubs in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park.This news arrives three days after one of the cheetahs, Sasha, passed away from a kidney condition.
The information about the birth of offspring was shared by Union Minister Bhupender Yadav, who also tweeted images of the cubs.Sasha and seven other large cats were relocated from Africa to the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh.
The death of the more than four-and-a-half-year-old female cat was a setback for Project Cheetah, which intended to repopulate the world’s fastest land animal in India seven decades after they went extinct.
Mid-September of last year, eight cheetahs were transported from Namibia and confined in the KNP’s Sheopur district.
Congratulations 🇮🇳
A momentous event in our wildlife conservation history during Amrit Kaal!
I am delighted to share that four cubs have been born to one of the cheetahs translocated to India on 17th September 2022, under the visionary leadership of PM Shri @narendramodi ji. pic.twitter.com/a1YXqi7kTt
— Bhupender Yadav (मोदी का परिवार) (@byadavbjp) March 29, 2023
The seven remaining cheetahs are in good health. Three males and one female were released in the park’s open forest area, and they are “completely healthy, active, and hunting normally,” according to a statement from the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF-Wildlife), JS Chauhan.
Twelve cheetahs brought from South Africa to the KNP last month are currently housed in a quarantine enclosure and are healthy and active, according to a PTI official.On September 17, five female and three male Namibian cheetahs were released into their enclosures at the KNP during an occasion attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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The last cheetah perished in 1947 in the Koriya district of present-day Chhattisgarh, and the country declared the fastest land animal extinct in 1952.
