Twelve greater cheetahs will arrive in India from Africa on Saturday, taking their overall depend to twenty at Madhya Pradesh`s Kuno National Park, the Union Environment Ministry stated on Thursday.
The 2nd batch of cheetahs are coming 5 months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the world`s first inter-continental cheetah translocation assignment on September 17 final yr via way of means of liberating 8 cheetahs delivered from Namibia to the Kuno National Park.
On Thursday, an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane C17, additionally regarded as `Globe Master`, has taken off from Hindon airport at 6am. It is anticipated to land at Johannesburg`s OR Tambo airport on Thursday nighttime and take off with the 12 cheetahs on Friday nighttime. The decided on cheetahs are coming from Phinda Game Reserve in Kwazulu Natal (2 male, 1 female) and Rooiberg Game Reserve in Limpopo Province (five male, four female).
“They had been in quarantine and they’re now prepared for transportation. Several cheetah professionals and veterinary medical doctors from South Africa also are coming with them. On February 20 we are able to actually have a convention assembly in Kuno with the global cheetah professionals such as representatives from the Cheetah Conservation Fund. This will display us the manner ahead and assist us verify on whether or not we’re at the proper track,” stated SP Yadav, director general (wildlife).
The memorandum of understanding (MOU) with South Africa A states that the African usa can offer 10 to twelve cheetahs each yr for the following ten years for India`s Project Cheetah. “We have a intention of making a sustainable and possible meta populace in India that’s round forty individuals. We will don’t forget Cheetah Programme a fulfillment whilst we’ve a possible populace of forty cheetahs and there’s a success breeding each yr,” Yadav added.
The authorities released the ambitious “Project Cheetah” with the intention of reintroducing the species to its former habitat in India, seventy one years after the final recorded cheetah changed into hunted down in Chhattisgarh in 1952.
Earlier this month, civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia stated the important authorities is making plans to translocate 14 to sixteen greater cheetahs to India over the following couple of months beneathneath the second one section of “Project Cheetah”.