Cheetah is Back in India Project Cheetah 8 Cheetahs Brought to India

Cheetah is Back in India

Project Cheetah

8 Cheetahs Brought to India

The 'African Cheetah Introduction Project in India' was conceived in 2009.

"Project Cheetah, under which the cheetahs were reintroduced in India.

The last cheetah in India died in 1947 in Korea district, Chhattisgarh

The species was declared extinct from India in 1952.

Cheetah has lost 90 % of its global habitat in the last 100 years.

Cheetahs were broght in Boeing 747-400 aircraft from Namibia’s capital Windhoek

Arrived in Gwalior

Then  shifted by Indian Air Force (IAF) Chinook heavy-lift helicopter to KNP.

The cheetah has gone extinct in several countries due to human activity.

Leopards have preyed on cheetahs in Africa.

Similar fears are being expressed for Kuno National Park.

Around 50 leopards are housed aroaund KNP.

Accoding to a reseach, cheetahs found in Africa’s Kgalagadi Park showed that cubs of these cheetahs have only 36 % chance of survival.

The cheetah is also the world’s fastest land mammal that lives in Africa and Asia.

Scientific Name of cheetah is  Acinonyx Jubatus

'Project Cheetah' proposal was prepared in 2008-09, approved by Manmohan Singh govt.

Then Forest and Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, went to Cheetah outreach centre in South Africa in April 2010,"

In 2013, the Supreme Court stayed the implementation of the Cheetah Reintroduction Programme.

2020  Cheetah Reintroduction Programme was allowed.

 

The name of the Namibia is derived from the Namib desert

Namib is the oldest desert in the world.

Nama origin and means "vast place"

President: Hage Geingob

Vice President: Nangolo Mbumba

Prime Minister: Saara Kuugongelwa

Capital: Windhoek

Ethnic group: Ovambo

Religion: Christianity:  87.9%

Currency: Namibian dollar

          : South African rand

 

 

Kuno National Park

Established in 1981 as a wildlife sanctuary

Located in Sheopur and Morena districts

State: Madhya Pradesh

KNP was given the status of a national park 2018.

implement the Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project, 1990s

2009, Cheetah reintroduction in India, Site selected