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The initiative to reintroduce wild cheetahs to India's grasslands has seen 20 felines flown from Africa to their new home in Madhya Pradesh. But several of the predators have already died.

Seven cheetahs have died since the project was launched. As ground staff struggle to manage the situation, experts say the plans were flawed from the start.

The resistance posed by the mother cheetah, while not entirely unexpected given the cub’s separation from the mother a month ago, represents a fresh challenge that wildlife biologists need to address while managing young cheetah cubs in captivity

Two male cheetahs at Kuno national park received injuries on Tuesday while fighting two others for space with the officials claiming that the injured cheetahs are under veterinary care and responding well to the medical treatment. South African male cheetahs Vayu and Agni were attacked by two younger Namibian cheetahs. All of them were in the wild. The park staff managed to

India has a project to reintroduce the cheetah in its forests, seven decades after the last member of the species went extinct in the country. Under Project Cheetah, the animals are translocated from the forests of South Africa and Namibia to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. But the death of six imported cheetahs - including three newborns - has prompted some people to question the project

Sangma says the government resources should be used to prioritise conservation and the restoration of native wildlife rather than being diverted to cheetah introduction

Cubs were special and needed to be conserved: Namibian experts

India’s Kuno National Park was to accommodate 21 cheetahs but its management now says Kuno can house only around 10 of the 20 cheetahs translocated to India

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Till Thursday evening, the environment minister’s Twitter page had not mentioned the cub deaths