Cheetahs are set to race on the plains of India for the first time since they were driven to extinction in the country 70 years ago, officials say.
Bringing the cheetah back to India will “have important conservation ramifications,” the statement said, adding that they would help to stem the “rapid loss of biodiversity.”
The project's goal is to restore a cheetah population within the species’ historic range in India, with 50 cheetahs placed in various parks over the next five years, the environment ministry said in aHowever, Sanjay Gubbi, a conservation biologist based in India who focuses on large wild cats, said that reintroducing cheetahs will be more difficult than prior big cat initiatives.
“I don’t think India has enough large continuous patches of grassland scrub habitats to support the species anymore,” he said.Keystone-France / via Getty Images file The project will be overseen by the National Tiger Conservation Authority of India which has previouslyTheir new home at the Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary is almost 185,000 acres in size and devoid of human settlements. It can currently home 21 cheetahs in total, the environment ministry's statement said.estimated to be left in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which says that Namibia has the world’s largest population.
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