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Topic: Cheetah

India’s cheetah count crosses 50. Jwala gives birth to 5 cubs at Kuno

Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said that the birth of the Indian litter marked a significant moment for India's Project Cheetah.

How Lucknow’s DNA lab is decoding Indian cheetah’s genetic history from 200-yr-old samples

For the first time in the world, BSIP and ZSI are attempting to sequence the whole nuclear genome of this extinct Indian big cat.

9 cheetahs from Botswana land in MP’s Kuno National Park—tally stands at 48

The big cats flew on an Indian Air Force aircraft for about nine to ten hours to reach Gwalior on Saturday morning.

Mosquitoes now feed more on humans than animals. Brace for newer, more dangerous diseases

The study explained that even though the Atlantic forest had a diversity of animal and bird species to feed on, over a third of the forest has been lost to deforestation.

2 Kuno cheetah cubs dead in 3 days—one ‘separated from family’, other hit by car

The cub found dead Friday had been released into wild with its mother by CM Yadav the day before. The one hit fatally by car Sunday had strayed out of national park.

Mukhi was first India-born first-gen cheetah; her litter of five becomes 2nd

Mukhi, as her name suggests, was the first cheetah cub to be born in the wild on Indian soil after 20 big cats were brought to the country from Africa.

In their prime & ‘perfectly wild’, Kuno cheetahs Prabhash & Pavak reach their new home

The two were among the first lot brought to Kuno from South Africa in February 2023 under Project Cheetah. They have been released in MP's Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary.

Kuno’s cheetah reintroduction project: Jwala & her 4 cubs latest to be released into the wild

Chief Conservator of Forests Uttam Sharma says considering that the cubs are born in India, they will have it easier to settle in Indian conditions.

20 more cheetahs to be brought from South Africa identified; 17,000 sq km corridor on the anvil

Officials of Kuno National Park, meanwhile, are preparing to relocate 1 female cheetah & 2 cubs from it to Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary.

Lover of food, attention & travel, cheetah Pavan was ‘special’ for forest dept officials in Kuno

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.

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