Project Cheetah completes one year of first-ever intercontinental wildlife translocation bignewsnetwork.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bignewsnetwork.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
India News: After almost 75 years of extinction in India, eight African cheetahs from Namibia have been successfully translocated to Kuno National Park in Madhya
Cheetah Steering Committee head Dr Rajesh Gopal, who was at the sanctuary, scouting for locations, told The Sunday Express, “It will take time but the area is very promising. It looks like Masai Mara (in Kenya). It has open glades, a rocky area, shallow soil. exactly like east Africa.”
The cub’s mother is known to avoid human contact and is considered a good hunter. It gave birth to four cubs after a mating interaction with Gaurav, part of a coalition of cheetahs known in Kuno as the Rockstars.