“After a wait of nearly 70 years, cheetahs returned to India in 2022 with their reintroduction at Kuno National Park, marking a major milestone in wildlife conservation.”
Last week, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change posted this on social media under the hashtag #12YearOfSeva, celebrating the return of the cheetah in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The animals, however, are African cheetahs brought in by the Narendra Modi government from Namibia, South Africa and Botswana, not the Asiatic cheetah that vanished from India last century. The project has remained contentious among conservation biologists and wildlife scientists.
