Tag: Cheetah

The booming online trade in cheetahs, fuelled by social media, threatens the dwindling wild population. Learn how this illegal activity adds to existing threats and what can be done to stop it.

To date, 20 adult African cheetahs have been imported, but not without setbacks. The first batch of eight cheetahs arrived in September 2022, followed by another 12 from South Africa in February 2023. In March 2023, hope was kindled as one of the females gave birth to four cubs conceived in India.

In a major jolt to the ambitious project of India to reintroduce Cheetahs into Indian Forests, a third Cheetah airlifted from South Africa, died at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.

An ambitious project, India is going to reintroduce the fastest animal on earth – the Cheetah- in its historical range in the...