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The second batch of 12 cheetahs will embark on the journey to Madhya Pradeshs Kuno National Park from the O R Tambo International Airport in Gauteng on Friday evening.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a Solid Waste Monitoring Committee, on the pattern of High Level Yamuna Monitoring Committee, to be headed by Delhi Lt Governor V.K. Saxena.The NGT, in its order dated February 16 on ...

Sources said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia are expected to be present during their arrival.

New Delhi : Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav said that 12 more Cheetahs would be coming from South Africa on Saturday via the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) C-17 Globemaster plane, which has already taken off from India in the morning. Addressing a press conference in the national capital on Thursday, the Union Minister said that these 12 Cheetahs will be released on the same day of their arrival at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The Cheetah Project Chief […]

Twelve cheetahs will be flown in from South Africa on February 18, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said today.

Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav said that 12 more Cheetahs would be coming from South Africa on Saturday via the Indian Air Force (IAF) C-17 Globem

Eight cheetahs brought earlier from Namibia have adapted well

Under the ambitious Cheetah reintroduction programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had released the first batch of eight spotted felines including five females -- from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at Kuno on his 72nd birthday on September 17 last year

The terms of the MoU will be reviewed every five years to ensure it remains relevant, the environment ministry said.According to the Action Plan for Reintroduction of Cheetah in India prepared by the Wildlife Institute of India, around 12-14 wild cheetahs that are ideal for establishing a new cheetah population would be imported from South Africa, Namibia and other African countries as a founder stock for five years initially and then as required by the programme.

The Cheetah Project Chief SP Yadav informed that the aircraft had taken off for South Africa this morning and will land in Gwalior around 10 am on Saturday.