12 cheetahs to Kuno National Park
February 22 , 2023
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- Twelve cheetahs arrived in Madhya Pradesh from South Africa.
- They and were released into the quarantine enclosures at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district.
- With the addition of these 12 members, the count of cheetahs at the KNP has gone up to 20.
- They came Five months after the first batch of eight of these fastest land animals were brought there from Namibia.
- The country’s last cheetah died in Koriya district of present-day Chhattisgarh in 1947 and the species was declared extinct in 1952.
- This National Park is situated on the northern side of Vindhyachal mountains and is spread across more than 700 square km.
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