On his 72nd birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the Cheetahs into an enclosure spread over 10km today in the presence of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and wildlife experts.
This can be stated as a Historical mission by the Prime Minister to reintroduce the Cheetahs.
“India is one of those countries which beliefs in undoing ecological wrongs. A mistake should be rectified. Cheetahs became extinct in India due to overhunting. We have decided to bring the large carnivore back.
This ecological wrong is being undone,” environment minister Bhupender Yadav said. This is happening after seventy years. Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno Palpur National Park (KNP) geared itself for the arrival of eight cheetahs from Namibia, marking a historic return of the predator seven decades after it went extinct in India.
Forest officials put last-minute touches on arrangements, releasing animals in the wild for the big cats to feed on, inspecting enclosures, and security arrangements, and instructing the local population on appropriate behaviour.
