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M.P. seeks revival of cheetah reintroduction project
News:
- The Madhya Pradesh forest department has written to the National Tiger Conservation Authority to revive the plan to reintroduce cheetahs in the State’s Nauradehi sanctuary.
Important facts:
2. The forest department would need finances from the Centre for the project.
3. The ambitious project was conceived in 2009.
4. The Cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952
5. The country’s last spotted feline died in Chhattisgarh in 1947.
6. The Wildlife Institute of India at Dehradun had prepared cheetah reintroduction project six years ago.
7. The proposal was to put the felines in the enclosure with huge boundary walls before released in the wild.
8. Nauradeshi was found to be the most suitable area for the cheetahs as its forests are not very dense to restrict the fast movement of the spottec cat.
9. According to the earlier action plan, around 20 cheetahs were to be translocated to Nauradehi from Namibia in Africa.
10. The Namibia Cheetah Conservation Fund had then showed its willingness to donate the felines to India.
11. However, the State was not ready to finance the plan contending that it was the Centre’s project.
