Three years of the cheetah rehabilitation project in Madhya Pradesh have been completed. Prime Minister Modi left the cheetahs in Kuno National Park in 2022. The cheetah adopted the climate here, the cubs were born. Now leopards are also being shifted to the Gandhisagar Sanctuary of Mandsaur.
Three years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious cheetah rehabilitation project are going to be completed on Wednesday. After 70 years in the country, the cheetah was restored by Prime Minister Modi on September 17, 2022 in Kuno National Park in Sheopur district in Madhya Pradesh. In the first phase, eight leopards were brought from Namibia, which was released by the Prime Minister in the park’s enclosure.
In the second phase, 12 leopards were brought here from South Africa and released here. Then there was a lot of concern whether leopards would be able to live in the climate here or not? In the midst of early difficulties, the cheetahs adapt themselves to here. His clan also increased. The cheetahs got the climate (wind-water) here. African leopards also became ‘desi’. So they were thought to be settled in other places as well. The Gandhisagar Sanctuary (Mandsaur) of the state became the second habitat of the cheetahs.
People of the villages understood the behavior of the cheetahs
After keeping the cheetahs in the enclosure of Kuno Park for a long time, many challenges also came up when they were released into the open forest. The cheetahs crossed the forest limits several times. Reached the border of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Sometimes he returned himself and sometimes he had to be unconscious. Cheetahs in the forest started to hunt traditional. Outside the forest, people of the villages have understood the behavior of cheetahs. Preparations are also underway to bring new consignments of cheetahs. For this, a team of senior officials of the Government of India is being discussed from Botswana, Kenya and South Africa.
Initially, when the process of death of the cheetahs started, it was revealed that fifty percent of the cheetahs may be likely to be possible. Now the perception has changed. Chief Conservator of Forests Uttam Kumar says that the data regarding the survival of the cheetahs cannot be told, this situation will be revealed after eight to ten years. Cheetahs are currently being monitored in the re-introduction program, their maintenance is going on. Cheetahs are being born here, they are getting molded in the atmosphere.
Today a female cheetah will be left in Gandisagar Sanctuary
Male Cheetah Pavak and Prabhas were released on 20 April in the second residence of cheetahs in the state. On Wednesday, on the completion of three years of the Cheetah project, the female cheetah Dheera will be shifted here. So that the descendants of cheetahs can also occur in Gandhisagar. Dheera was brought to Kuno Park from South Africa.
On Wednesday, Dheera will be taken by a special vehicle to Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary in Mandsaur via Kota-Jhalawar in Rajasthan. A distance of 360 km will be completed in about eight hours. Dheera will be left in the Gandhisagar Sanctuary by Wednesday evening.
There were 11 cubs born last year
The total number of cheetahs in the state is 27. Nine out of a total of 20 cheetahs brought from Namibia and South Africa were killed. Of the 11 living cheetahs, nine (six female and three male) are in Kuno and two (male) in Gandhisagar. So far, a total of 26 cubs have been born on India’s soil, out of which 10 have died. Last year 11 cubs were born. Five cubs were born so far this year.
Cheetah adopted the atmosphere here
The cheetah project is completing three years, the success of this important project is that the cheetahs have adopted the atmosphere here. These are the most positive signals born here. -Utam Kumar Sharma, CCF and Director Kuno Park.
