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.
Not to released from larger enclosure into wild unless prey populations are at appropriate level of 35 animals per sq km & ideally to 50 per sq km, says steering committee.
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.
Three females, two males will join three others which are out in KNP. Once monsoon ends in September, situation will be reassessed for release of another 10 in Kuno or Gandhisagar.
India’s cheetah translocation project is the biggest conservation experiment of its kind, and its progress is being watched closely by experts from across the world.
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