{"id":189637,"date":"2022-06-09T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=189637"},"modified":"2022-06-09T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:24:42","slug":"after-75-years-will-cheetahs-make-india-their-home-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/after-75-years-will-cheetahs-make-india-their-home-again\/","title":{"rendered":"After 75 Years, Will Cheetahs Make India Their Home Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is set to introduce cheetahs from South Africa in a Kuno-Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. It is an attempt to rehabilitate the species that had become extinct in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>When did the Cheetahs become extinct in India?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-189638 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-1.03.46-PM.png?resize=302%2C1288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-1.03.46-PM.png?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-1.03.46-PM.png?resize=70%2C300&amp;ssl=1 70w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-09-at-1.03.46-PM.png?resize=240%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: TOI<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The earliest records of the cheetah are seen in cave paintings at Kharvai and Karabad in MP, among others, dating back to 2500-2300 BCE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last documented Cheetah\u2019s vanished from India when Maharaja Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo of Koriya (in present-day Chhattisgarh) shot three Asiatic cheetahs in 1947. Soon after, in 1952, the cheetah was declared extinct in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main reasons behind the cheetah\u2019s extinction were capture in large numbers, human encroachment in their habitat and a decline in availability of prey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cheetah Reintroduction Plans\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cheetah-reintroduction-in-india\/\">Click Here to read about it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>After 75 Years, Will Cheetahs Make India Their Home Again?<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> TOI on 9th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is set to introduce cheetahs from South Africa in a Kuno-Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh. It is an attempt to rehabilitate the species that had become extinct in the country. When did the Cheetahs become extinct in India? Source: TOI The earliest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/after-75-years-will-cheetahs-make-india-their-home-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After 75 Years, Will Cheetahs Make India Their Home Again?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-189637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702634078},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}