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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
Murali Krishnan

South African cheetahs arrive to start new lives in India

India’s native Asiatic cheetahs were officially declared extinct in 1952. © AFP/Roslan Rahman

Continuing New Delhi's efforts to reestablish the variety of the feline population, a group of 12 cheetahs was brought from South Africa last week and put into quarantine enclosures in the Kuno National Park in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

The big cats arrived after a 10-hour flight from Johannesburg. They will join eight brought from Namibia last year. The South African cheetahs are between 18 months and four years of age.

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