Posted on Aug 4, 2023
Cheetahs in Kuno: Is India's effort to reintroduce the big cat facing a crisis?
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Is India's ambitious project to reintroduce cheetahs, more than 70 years after they were declared extinct, facing a crisis?
Consider this. Twenty cheetahs were relocated from South Africa and Namibia to the 74,200-hectare Kuno national park in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in September last year and February. Since March, six of those cheetahs and three cubs born in the park have died. (The ninth cat died on Wednesday.)
To be sure, cheetah experts say that losing half of the founder population in the initial year of relocation in unfenced parks is a common occurrence. There could be more deaths in the second year, they say.
Consider this. Twenty cheetahs were relocated from South Africa and Namibia to the 74,200-hectare Kuno national park in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in September last year and February. Since March, six of those cheetahs and three cubs born in the park have died. (The ninth cat died on Wednesday.)
To be sure, cheetah experts say that losing half of the founder population in the initial year of relocation in unfenced parks is a common occurrence. There could be more deaths in the second year, they say.
Cheetahs in Kuno: Is India's effort to reintroduce the big cat facing a crisis?
Posted from bbc.com
Wildlife
India
Posted >1 y ago
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Are park managers aware of the "why's" of these deaths? And what they can do to attempt further deaths?
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel I like watching documentaries on Cheetahs. I hope they can eventually re-establish them to India. Their biggest problem will be poachers I think.
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