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Cheetahs in India highlights: PM Modi expresses gratitude to Namibia
Sep 17, 2022, 19:38:16 IST
Project Cheetahs highlights: Efforts to bring the animal — the smallest of the big cats and the fastest land mammal — have been decades in the making, beginning with Indira Gandhi in the 1970s but have always run into international diplomatic or legal hurdles, until now.
_1663396218087_1663396240791_1663396240791.jpg "On his 72nd birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the animals into an enclosure spread over 10km in the presence of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and wildlife experts.(Source: DD News)")
On his 72nd birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the animals into an enclosure spread over 10km in the presence of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and wildlife experts.(Source: DD News)
Cheetahs in India highlights: Cheetahs, the world’s fastest mammals, have been reintroduced to India. The Cheetahs were brought from Namibia to India in a special cargo flight Boeing -747. The flight landed in Gwalior in the morning, after which they were taken to Kuno National Park in a helicopter....Read More
On his 72nd birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the animals into an enclosure spread over 10km in the presence of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and wildlife experts.
The cheetahs were flown from southern Africa for their reintroduction in India seven decades after the species was declared extinct in the country in 1952.
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