This comes just days after Modi's visit to Namibia during which he emphasised conservation efforts adopted for Namibian cheetahs following their intercontinental translocation.
Forest officials remember Pavan as a free soul who would always travel East. Pavan was the only free-ranging cheetah at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
Jwala, a cheetah translocated to Kuno from Namibia, gave birth to three cubs on 20 January, 25 days after another Cheetah, Aasha, delivered her litter.
Another translocated cheetah died at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park on 16 January, taking the death toll of the big cats that went extinct in India decades back to 10, including three cubs.
Satellite images showed at least three cubs, said Kuno’s chief conservator of forests (CCF) Uttam Sharma. Comes months after three of four cubs born to another cheetah, Jwala, died.
Kuno National Park's chief conservator of forests Uttam Sharma talks about Project Cheetah & its challenges, the spate of deaths at the park & how his team's helping a lone cub survive.
Project has seen 6 cheetahs die of 20 translocated from Africa. Animals were initially released into the wild of MP's Kuno national park but later quarantined after 3 died of septicemia.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority has informed the SC that the Rajasthan reserve is facing issues such as tiger deaths, feral cattle, staff shortage, and low prey density.
The significance of visit lay precisely in the combination— limited time, expansive representation, substantive outcomes. Such visits do not occur when pressing issues are absent.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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