{"id":240445,"date":"2023-05-01T19:43:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240445"},"modified":"2023-05-02T14:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T08:44:05","slug":"spot-the-problems-deaths-of-two-cheetahs-call-for-thorough-expert-investigation-not-speculation-and-space-is-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/spot-the-problems-deaths-of-two-cheetahs-call-for-thorough-expert-investigation-not-speculation-and-space-is-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot The Problems &#8211; Deaths of two cheetahs call for thorough expert investigation, not speculation. And space is the key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ource<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<b>\u201cSpot The Problems &#8211; Deaths of two cheetahs call for thorough expert investigation, not speculation. And space is the key\u201d <\/b>published in <b>The Times of India <\/b>on\u00a0<strong>1st <\/strong><b>May 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3: Environment and Bio-diversity Conservation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About issues in India\u2019s cheetah reintroduction project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Uday is the second cheetah \u2013 among the 20 cheetahs that were translocated to Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Kuno National Park (KNP)\u2013 has died within a month. This is the second such cheetah death within a month.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"About_Sasha_Cheetah_Reintroduction_Project_and_Kuno_National_Park\">About Sasha, Cheetah Reintroduction Project and Kuno National Park<\/span><\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Read here:\u00a0<a title=\"Cheetah Sasha dies due to kidney ailment in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Kuno National Park\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cheetah-sasha-dies-due-to-kidney-ailment-in-madhya-pradeshs-kuno-national-park\/\">Cheetah Sasha dies due to kidney ailment in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Kuno National Park<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What are the challenges in Cheetah conservation?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Space issue<\/strong>: Unlike tigers that stalk prey, cheetahs race to hunt. Thus demanding wide ranges, typically grasslands. India has lost about 90-95% of its grasslands over the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a cheetah was tranquilised when seen roaming beyond human-defined borders.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: Kuno is the only national park for cheetahs.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>What should be done?<\/h2>\n<p>To save the cheetahs, India should <strong>a)<\/strong> Focus on conserving and expanding grasslands responsibly. India should also avoid haphazardly planting grasses, which make up a fraction of grasslands\u2019 ecosystem, <strong>b)<\/strong> Focus on conserving prey species, and <strong>c)<\/strong> Focus on mechanisms to protect livestock, including compensation for villages that fall in the roaming ranges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cSpot The Problems &#8211; Deaths of two cheetahs call for thorough expert investigation, not speculation. And space is the key\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a01st May 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3: Environment and Bio-diversity Conservation. Relevance: About issues in India\u2019s cheetah reintroduction project. News: Uday is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/spot-the-problems-deaths-of-two-cheetahs-call-for-thorough-expert-investigation-not-speculation-and-space-is-the-key\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spot The Problems &#8211; Deaths of two cheetahs call for thorough expert investigation, not speculation. And space is the key<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[11367,216,10496],"class_list":["post-240445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-cheetah-reintroduction-project","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704736928},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240445","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}