New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) Nearly four years after the launch of ‘Project Cheetah’, which sought to bring back the world’s fastest animal to India, a new book about the initiative will be launched on May 23.
It is authored by Prashant Agrawal, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, who led the negotiations that made the cheetah’s return to the country possible.
The book, ‘Bringing the Cheetah Back to India’, published by Hachette India, is an account of the diplomatic effort to restore the cheetah.
“This book for the first time narrates the human drama behind one of conservation’s most ambitious experiments,” according to the book’s blurb.
“From high offices in Namibia to fast-paced action in New Delhi, ‘Bringing the Cheetah Back to India’ tells the astonishing story of how nations joined hands in a race against time to resurrect a ghost, restore an ecosystem and rewrite the rules of rewilding itself,” the blurb added.
For seventy years, India endured the absence of the cheetah, which had been hunted to extinction and erased from its grasslands.
This changed after Project Cheetah’s launch in 2022, under which cheetahs were flown in from Namibia and South Africa and released at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav will be the chief guest at the book launch event, set to take place at the India International Centre here. PTI ALC NB
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