National Parks of India
Kuno National
Park
Area: 748.76 km2
The park lies within
the larger Kuno Wildlife Division
has a total area of
1235 sq. km.
Dist: Sheopur and
Morena
State: Madhya Pradesh
Establishment: 1981 as
Wildlife Sanctuary
2018: National Park
Kuno National Park
derived its name from Kuno River
Implement the Asiatic
Lion Reintroduction Project: 1990s
1998 and 2003:
24 villages
resettled to sites
outside the protected area
Which Include 1650
inhabitants
Most of the inhabitants
belong to Saharia tribe
In 2009:
Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary
was proposed as a possible site
for Cheetah
reintroduction in India
April 2013
Supreme Court of India
ordered Gujarat to send some of their Gir lions to Madhya Pradesh
Gujarat state had
resisted the relocation of lion
Gir Sanctuary lose its
status as the world's only home of the Asiatic lion
'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.
January 2022,
Bhupender Yadav
(environment minister ) launched the action plan for reintroducing cheetahs in
India.
Starting it with Kuno
national park of Madhya Pradesh.
Government of India in
2022 drafted a 25-year plan for Lion relocation within Gujarat state and not in
other states.
Project Cheetah:
8 Cheetahs Broght to
India
Including Five female
and three male cheetahs aged 4 to 6 years arrived in Kuno National Park from
Namibia On 17 September 2022.
Flora:
The dominant tree
species are Acacia catechu, Salai Boswellia serrata.
Anogeissus pendula
forest and scrub, Butea forest
Fauna:
Indian leopard, jungle
cat, sloth bear, dhole, Indian wolf
129 bird species were
sighted during a survey in spring 2007
Indian white-backed
vulture, long-billed vulture,
red-headed vulture,
Egyptian vulture, crested serpent-eagle,
According to Hindustan
Times:
Total of 123 species of
trees , 71 species of shrubs , 32 species of climbers & exotic species,
34 species of bamboos and grasses, 33 species
of mammals, 206 species of birds,
14 species of fishes,
33 species of reptiles and 10 species of amphibians.
