Neerva, a female cheetah from South Africa aged 3-4 years, was released into the wild from a larger enclosure at the KNP on Sunday evening, the national park's Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Prakash Kumar Verma said.
Three cheetahs - two males named Agni and Vayu and one female Gamini - were released into the wild at the KNP on Friday.
Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park has come under scrutiny after the death of two cheetahs in leinadequate space for the felines brought from Africa, stating that a 750 sq km area alone is not sufficient and a second or...
Three adult cheetahs and three of the four cubs born to a female Namibian cheetah have so far died in around two months at the Kuno National Park.
The decision was taken after a team of experts reviewed the current status of the 'Project Cheetah' on the directions of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
Notably, this is the second such incident at KNP in almost a month. Earlier, Namibian cheetah Sasha died due to a kidney ailment on March 27
It took the number of cheetah cubs who died at the KNP in the last three days to three. A cub had died there on May 23.
The cheetah was moving towards Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh when it was rescued. The spotted cat was around 150 km away from the KNP at that time, the official said.
Brushing aside comments by some experts on the space needed by cheetahs to lead a fulfilling life in the wild, Sharma said "experts had claimed cheetahs can't...
Oban, one of the eight cheetahs brought from Namibia in September last year, had strayed into a field near Baroda village on April 2. The place is some...
Eight Namibian cheetahs, comprising five females and three males, were brought to KNP as part of an ambitious reintroduction programme of the species and were...
Forest department officials also shared a video in which staffers can be seen trying to coax Oban to get back into the forest.
A female cheetah generally gives birth 90 to 93 days after mating. As Namibian cheetahs were brought here on September 17, 2022, Siyaya would have mated...
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Vikram Nath was told by the Centre in its application moved by Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati that a status...
According to Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF-Wildlife) JS Chauhan, Sasha died because of a kidney ailment which she was suffering from even before...
Sasha's creatinine level was above 400 (an indicator of poor kidney function) which resulted in her death, Chauhan added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had released the cheetahs -- the world's fastest land animal -- in a special enclosure at the park on September 17 last year.
"Cheetahs have arrived in Sheopur (KNP) on the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This has increased the possibility of employment opportunities in...
The seven male and five female felines, brought as part of the Indian government's ambitious cheetah reintroduction programme, were served 65 to 70 kg of...
With the addition of these 12 members, the count of cheetahs at the KNP has gone up to 20. Prime Minister Modi had released eight felines from Namibia into the...
Due to the delay in the MoU signing, some experts had in December expressed concern over the health of the South African cheetahs as these animals had been...
India and South Africa had in January signed an MoU to transport cheetahs from the African country and reintroduce them in Kuno. A majority of the world's...
The South African environment department in a statement on Thursday said the plan is to send 12 cheetahs every year for a decade.
According to an official on Thursday, one of the eight cheetahs imported from Namibia last September to Madhya Pradesh was diagnosed with the hepatorenal...
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) would facilitate the working of the "Cheetah Task Force" and render all necessary help, the ministry said in a...
