Monday, Aug 14, 2023
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CHEETAH NEWS
Kuno’s last cheetah on loose traced — with elephants, dogs, drones
August 14, 2023 6:31 am
The Centre has tasked a 11-member expert committee with monitoring the health of the surviving cheetahs who are expected to remain in their enclosures and wait out the monsoon season.
Express News Quiz: Cheetah crisis, no-trust on Manipur & return of the bandit king
August 12, 2023 7:26 pm
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What went wrong with Kuno's cheetahs and their radio collars? Experts weigh in
August 12, 2023 7:02 pm
With at least three of the nine cheetah deaths in Kuno being attributed to infections around the neck, four of India’s top wildlife scientists talk of their experience with radio-collaring different species
What ails the cheetahs in Kuno?
August 09, 2023 12:02 pm
On the first anniversary of India’s cheetah reintroduction project, a look at their life behind the scenes
Cheetah deaths at Kuno not low, but no reason to disbelieve govt efforts, says SC
August 07, 2023 11:43 pm
As of now, six adult cheetahs — all relocated from Namibia and South Africa — and three cubs born in India have died since March this year at Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park.
Experimenting with cheetahs, applying copy-paste as conservation
August 08, 2023 7:11 pm
Moving cheetahs artificially from one ‘island population’ to another, as is done in South Africa, will undermine India's long battle against habitat fragmentation
9 dead, 2 unfit, 1 missing under a year: Cheetah project falls short of its own benchmark
August 07, 2023 10:31 am
According to the Government’s Cheetah Action Plan 2022, one of the key milestones for the project’s short-term success is the survival of at least “50% of the introduced cheetahs for the first year.” By this benchmark, the Kuno project is on the brink of failure.
Being fed in the wild, their prey being poached, collar wounds not monitored: Cheetah project falters
August 06, 2023 1:23 pm
Several site visits and interviews with Kuno forest staff, cheetah project biologists and vets, technical and support staff hired for the project and local villagers revealed telling details.
Y V Jhala writes: Cheetah deaths are a setback for the reintroduction project but they do not signal a failure
August 06, 2023 7:22 am
Reservations of critics have proved unfounded. But reintroduced cheetahs must be cared for till they adapt to Indian conditions
Have serious concerns how cheetah project is managed, we in dark, foreign experts tell SC
August 06, 2023 7:24 am
They have underlined that some of the cheetah deaths “could have been prevented by better monitoring of the animals and more appropriate” and timely “veterinary care”.
CHEETAH PHOTOS
The cheetahs are back: PM Narendra Modi releases the big cats at Kuno National Park
September 17, 2022 1:05 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is celebrating his 72nd birthday, released three cheetahs in quarantine enclosures of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh around 11.30 am.
