Total 12 cheetahs from South Africa arrived on Saturday at Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior Airport. The large cats flew in the Indian Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster Cargo jet. Officials informed they will be moved from there to their new home, ‘The Kuno National Park’ in Madhya Pradesh. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for raising the number of Cheetahs in Kuno National Park.

“Now, the number of Cheetahs in Kuno National Park is expected to grow. I appreciate Prime Minister Modi from the bottom of my heart; this is his vision. “A total of 20 cheetahs will be rehabilitated in Kuno,” CM Chouhan said.

SP Yadav, the Cheetah Project Leader, had stated, “We are pleased to announce that the 12 cheetahs took off from Johannesburg airport in a C-17 Globemaster aircraft for Gwalior airport at 8.30 p.m. (Local South African Time). On Saturday, February 18, the cheetahs will arrive at Gwalior Airport at 10 a.m.”.

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In September of last year, eight cheetahs from Namibia were brought into India.

The cheetahs are being introduced to India as part of the Cheetah Reintroduction Project, which is based on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the governments of South Africa and India.

The MoU encourages conservation and ensures that expertise is shared between the two countries in order to build a healthy and safe cheetah population in India.

The Agreement supports conservation and guarantees that expertise is shared and transferred, as well as capacity is established, to enhance cheetah conservation. This involves human-animal conflict resolution, wildlife capture and relocation, and community participation in conservation in both countries.

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