Centre to bring 25 cheetahs from Africa to Madhya Pradesh under new project
India Today
More than 25 cheetahs will be brought from Namibia and South Africa to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno-Palpur National Park under the Centre's cheetah reintroduction project.
More than 25 cheetahs will be brought to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno-Palpur National Park (KNP) from Namibia and South Africa in a phased manner in future, Union minister Bhupender Yadav said on Sunday.
Initially, eight cheetahs will arrive at the KNP on September 17, the Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change said.
Yadav along with MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar took stock of the preparations for the event to be held on September 17 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the cheetahs into specially-built enclosures at the KNP in Sheopur district.
Talking to reporters in Gwalior, Yadav said that under the Cheetah Reintroduction Project, more than 25 cheetahs will arrive from Namibia and South Africa in the future.
"Initially, eight cheetahs are coming to Kuno Palpur from Namibia, which will be released by the prime minister," he said.
Meanwhile, Chouhan announced that the villages located in the KNP, from where people were shifted, would be given the status of "revenue villages".
Bringing cheetahs from another continent to the KNP under the reintroduction project is the biggest event in wildlife history of this century, Chouhan said.
