September 17, 2022, is an important date in India’s conservation history. The species is “protection-reliant” and hence, needs to be fostered through in-situ conservation actions, in several protected areas spread across its historical range globally. The cheetah initiative is based on an action plan, a collaborative effort of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, Wildlife Institute of India and the state …
Eight cheetahs, five female and three male, arrived in India and were released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday as part of the Centre’s attempts to reintroduce the species that went extinct in 1952 In 1947, Maharaja Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo of Koriya, Surguja, in what is today known as Chhattisgarh, shot dead the last three recorded Asiatic cheetahs …
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