New Delhi: Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav introduced on Wednesday that one of many cheetahs relocated to India from Namibia had 4 cubs. He termed it a momentous occasion in India’s wildlife conservation historical past throughout ‘Amrit Kaal’.
He termed it a momentous occasion in India’s wildlife conservation historical past throughout ‘Amrit Kaal’. “I am delighted to share that four cubs have been born to one of the cheetahs translocated to India on 17th September 2022, under the visionary leadership of PM Shri @narendramodi ji (sic),” he tweeted. The minister congratulated the whole crew of Project Cheetah for his or her relentless efforts in bringing again the massive carnivore to India and for his or her efforts in correcting an ecological incorrect achieved previously.
A #milestone occasion in historical past of #wildlife #conservation of #India. We are delighted to share that 4 cubs have been born to one of many cheetahs translocated to India on seventeenth Sep. 22.@narendramodi@byadavbjp@CMMadhyaPradesh@KrVijayShah #Cheetah #cubs #MadhyaPradeshNews pic.twitter.com/FkqNCMdC9R
— Kuno National Park (@KunoNationalPrk) March 29, 2023
Under the bold Cheetah reintroduction programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the primary batch of eight noticed felines — 5 females and three males — from Namibia right into a quarantine enclosure at Kuno in Madhya Pradesh on his 72nd birthday on September 17 final yr.
Namibian Cheetah Sasha Dies At MP’s Kuno National Park
Five-year-previous feminine Namibian cheetah `Sasha`, who reportedly died as a result of severe renal (kidney associated) on Monday, her ailment was first detected within the final week of January, three month after she together with seven different massive cats had been launched at Madhya Pradesh`s Kuno National Park (KNP).
According to sources within the state Forest Department, Sasha was noticed mendacity lazily in her massive enclosure on January 23, after which the three docs crew had shifted her for therapy at a quarantine `Boma` (small enclosure).
Later, Sasha`s blood pattern was despatched to Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal and a crew of veterinary docs established that she was struggling with kidney an infection. Subsequent ultrasound examination of Sasha at KNP confirmed the blood take a look at report findings.
Since then, veterinary docs in coordination with their counterparts in Namibia and South Africa, had been administering therapy to the feminine Cheetah and had been monitoring her each day actions carefully.
Cheetah is the one giant carnivore that acquired utterly worn out from India as a result of over-searching and habitat loss. The final cheetah died in Koriya district of current-day Chhattisgarh in 1947 and the species was declared extinct in 1952.
