New guests will come soon in Kuno National Park – Photo: Social Media Expansion Soon from South Africa also in Kuno National Park of Sheopur district Cheetahs are about to come, preparations have started for this. Quarantine of cheetahs in South Africa for the last three and a half months to come to India Is placed. These cheetahs can be brought to Sheopur Kuno in India by the coming 14 December. Eight new enclosures have also been built and prepared for the newly arrived cheetahs in the park. South African Forest and Environment Minister Barbara Creasy has approved the MoU with India for Project Cheetah. The documents are now with President Cyril Ramaphosa. PM Modi Cheetahs were released
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kuno National Park in Sheopur on the occasion of his birthday Cheetahs were released on September. After keeping the quarantine for some time, the cheetahs have been released in the big enclosure. In July 750 India asked South Africa for the Cheetah project 09 was requested to be given to Cheetahs. Cheetahs were to be brought together from Namibia and South Africa. Preparations from selection of cheetahs to quarantining them were completed at the same time in Namibia as well as in South Africa, but the MoU could not be signed to bring cheetahs from South Africa, due to which eight cheetahs from Namibia came to India. , but the cheetahs tagged in South Africa remain locked in quarantine enclosures Had gone. Six enclosures of cheetahs already exist in Kuno. Means total 233 enclosures are in Kuno, in which Cheetahs can be kept. Whenever cheetahs will be brought from South Africa. Kuno is all set to welcome him. It is expected that the President of South Africa may sign the project within two to three days, after which Cheetahs will be brought to India. It is also being told that they were quarantined in South Africa for sending to India 14 out of which two tigers were found unfit. Their age was also high and they were not able to hunt properly, due to this, instead of these cheetahs, another was kept in Quarantine. Now after the signature of the President, they will be brought to India. DFO of National Kuno Sanctuary Prakash Sharma says that from South Africa Preparations to bring cheetahs are going on at a high level. Construction of eight new enclosures in Kuno is almost complete. The earlier six enclosures also remain in Kuno. We are all set. ,