On the directions of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a team of experts comprising of Adrian Tordiffe, Veterinary Wildlife Specialist, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Vincent van dan Merwe, Manager, Cheetah Metapopulation Project, The Metapopulation Initiative, South Africa; Qamar Qureshi, Lead Scientist, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun and Amit Mallick, […]
The PM Modi in his Mann Ki Baat on 25th September 2022 had urged the citizens to come with suggestions for cheetahs reintroduced from Namibia and South Africa, with an intention to popularize and to sensitize the general public about Project Cheetah. In this regard, a competition was organized on Government of India platform mygov.in […]
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Bhupender Yadav today released Twelve cheetahs brought from South Africa at Kuno National Park, Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh in the presence of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar. स्वागत है 🙏 Project Cheetah, launched […]
Shri Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate change, today, announced the translocation of twelve Cheetahs from South Africa to India on 18th February 2023. The Cheetahs will be translocated to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. Addressing the media on this occasion Shri Bhupender Yadav said that bringing the Cheetah back to […]
India received the first batch of cheetahs after 70 years, when PM Modi released the eight cheetahs from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at the Kuno National Park in September 2022. The five female and three male cheetahs were reintroduced as part of the ‘Action Plan for Reintroduction of Cheetah in India’ prepared by the […]