AFRICAN CHEETAHS TRANSLOCATION

Cheetahs set to be released in Gandhisagar Wildlife Sanctuary under Project Cheetah with preparations underway. Indian and South African officials collaborate in New Delhi on species conservation, emphasizing ecological restoration and prey recovery...

Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav announced that South African cheetah Gamini has given birth to six cubs at Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh, contrary to earlier reports of five cubs. The news marks a significant achievement in India's c...

South African Cheetah 'Gamini' from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve gave birth to five cubs at Kuno National Park, increasing the total number of Indian-born Cheetah cubs to 13. This is the fourth cheetah litter on Indian soil through Project Cheetah.

The officials said that compared to other female cheetahs, Jwala is a wilder animal. She avoids humans and remains alert even when resting, a typical cheetah behaviour of remaining careful of bigger and stronger predators all the time. Jwala (Namibi...

Namibian cheetah Jwala has given birth to four cubs at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. Jwala's second litter comes after a 10-month gap and follows the birth of four cubs last March. The project aims to reintroduce cheetahs, which went ext...

The year 2023 also saw the launch of the Ladli Behna Yojana under which a fixed monetary aid is deposited in the bank accounts of women in the state every month. The scheme launched by then CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan is believed to have contributed to...

A government report on India's cheetah reintroduction program has stated that four out of six criteria for short-term success have been met. The report highlights that the project is on track to becoming a successful large carnivore conservation eff...

India's ambitious project Cheetah on Sunday completed one year after the first batch of eight Namibian cheetahs was released in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday on September 17, 2022.

YK Jhala was lead scientist of Project Cheetah from 2010 to February 2023. He escorted the cheetahs when they arrived from Namibia and was involved in the project to bring the animals to India since its inception in 2009.

Experts involved in India's Project Cheetah believe that the six adult cheetahs and three cubs that have died since March this year may have succumbed to the country's hot weather. Thick winter coats create conditions conducive to dermatitis and fly...

The environment ministry and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) have told the Supreme Court that apart from the Kuno National Park, they have identified potential sites for cheetah introduction in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. These in...

The death of eight cheetahs in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, part of a 'reintroduction' project that started in September 2022, has called into question the viability of the first intercontinental cheetah translocation programme. What is req...

On the death of two more cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh, Union Forest Minister Bhupender Yadav on Saturday said the government is serious about the project and the cursorial animals won't be shifted out of KNP. He said a team will soon visit the protect...

An African cheetah, named Suraj, has become the eighth big cat casualty in India in almost four months. The cheetak had been translocated from Africa and was found dead lying still in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park’s Palpur East Forest Range's ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the first batch of eight spotted felines from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at Kuno in Madhya Pradesh on September 17 last year. In a second such translocation, 12 cheetahs were flown in from South Africa ...

"During the inspection in the morning, a cheetah brought from South Africa was found dull with head down following which veterinarians attending him alerted senior officials and the feline was taken out from the large enclosure for treatment. Unfort...

The application said that in view of the recent introduction of African cheetahs in the Kuno National Park and steps taken to secure the future Asiatic lions beyond the Gir National Park in Gujarat, the Union ministry and NTCA have decided to re-exa...

"So, it would be impossible for India to take cheetahs from Asia for this reintroduction because there are a few left. Maybe one day we might be able to save the Asiatic cheetah. It's a very different-looking cheetah, but this is a species that is e...

In fact, the 12 South African cheetahs - seven males and five females - have not hunted for themselves even once after being kept in bomas (small enclosures), said wildlife experts in know of India's cheetah reintroduction plan.