India is busy preparing to receive 12 “cheetahs” from South Africa – according to a plan to return to the country After Namibia just sent 8 earlier.
India is abuzz with preparations – BBC reports on the progress of conservation projects. Cheetah In India, 12 cheetahs from South Africa will arrive in India this week. The Namibian government recently sent eight cheetahs to India in 2022 for breeding.
Five female and seven male cheetahs from South Africa’s national parks will arrive in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, February 18. Central India Under an agreement South Africa signed in January to supply India with dozens of cheetahs over a decade.
The Asiatic cheetah disappeared from India more than 80 years ago due to poaching and habitat loss. As a result, the Indian authorities are continuing a program to restore the cheetah population in the country. In 2020, the Indian High Court allowed the importation of African cheetahs in selected areas.
File Photo: Cheetahs react inside their enclosure at Parc Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan, Central France. A dozen African cheetahs are expected to arrive in India, months after eight of the big cats were transferred from neighboring Namibia last year. Five women and seven men will be flown from South Africa to a national park in central India on Saturday. AFP
Mr Attam Sharma The director of Kudon National Park said After arriving in India cheetahs must be kept for about a month under the Indian animal import law.
The 12 tigers had been in quarantine in South Africa since July last year. but because the movement has been postponed for several months As final agreements between countries are postponed, wildlife experts are worried that a long quarantine of cheetahs could affect their health and well-being.
India had been planning to bring cheetahs from Iran more than 70 years ago, but the plan was scrapped because the Shah of Iran was overthrown. causing the negotiations to end
There is also an ongoing debate about the cheetah program in India. Supporters hope to rebuild the local economy and help restore the ecosystem. But many sectors are concerned that animal migration poses a number of risks. Including the release of cheetahs into national parks could put tigers at risk.
File Photo: For the first time in 70 years, India’s forests will be home to cheetahs. Eight of them are due to arrive in August from Namibia, which is home to one of the world’s largest wild cat populations. Their return comes decades after India’s indigenous population was officially declared extinct in 1952. AFP
File Photo: Maharajah Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo with a cheetah kill. Officials announced the deal after spending the past two years working on how to transport the animals after India’s supreme court ruled in 2020 that they could be reintroduced in a “carefully selected location”. /wikimedia/
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