Watch: Moment When Cheetahs Were Released Into Their New Home
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Two of the eight cheetahs were released into a special enclosure at the Kuno National Park by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is also celebrating his birthday today
Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park on Saturday welcomed eight cheetahs from Namibia as part of a government's project to reintroduce the feline in India after they became extinct here seven decades ago.
Three of the eight cheetahs were released into a special enclosure at the Kuno National Park by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is also celebrating his birthday today. He also took some photographs of the cheetahs after releasing them.
The eight cheetahs - five females and three males - will be kept in the quarantine enclosure for about a month before being released in the open forest areas of the park.
The Prime Minister termed "Project Cheetah", the world's first intercontinental translocation project, as the centre's endeavour towards environment and wildlife conservation. He was accompanied by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
