New Delhi: Cheetah who became extinct in India Independently Ready to return, said Minister of Environment Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday with his ministry prepared to translate the first eight batches from South Africa and the Ancient Park Namibia in Madhya Pradesh and a total of 50 in various parks for five years.
Yadav when revealing the action plan to reintroduce Cheetah in the country at the 19th meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), noting that the plan to reintroduce Cheetahs in 2021, but the second wave of Covid-19 delayed it.
India has a plan to reintroduce Cheetahes in the ancient National Park in ShePopur and Morena District in the Gwalior-Chambal Madhya Pradesh area, 70 years after it was officially declared extinct in India, in what could become a translocation project between the world’s first continent.
This country will get 12 to 15 cheetah from South Africa and Namibia at the end of this year.
Yadav also released ATLAS water, mapping all waterbodies in the Tiger bearing area in India.
Landscape Wise information has been described in Atlas which includes the Hilir Shivivik and Plain Gangetic Landscape, Central Indian and Ghats Eastern Landscapes, Western Ghats, Northeast Hill and Floodland Brahmaputra and Sundarbans.
Cheetah will be reintroduced at the end of the year: Minister
