Cheetah Cubs Born in Boma , Do They Have Conservation Value ?
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by The Wildlife India
2M ago
When Aasha gave birth to three cubs in one of the enclosures  of  Kuno national park- there was good news and bad news. The good news is that this is the second litter of cheetah on Indian soil after Siyaya, another Namibia cheetah, gave birth to four cubs in March 2023 and that the animal seems to have acclimatized further in India conditions. Birth in captivity will also enhance their ..read more
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For the First Time the Official Tale of Kuno Cheetahs
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by The Wildlife India
6M ago
 Ahead of the first anniversary of the  controvertial cheetah project  and the release of African cheetahs in  Kuno national park,  interesting observations have been shared by the  director of the park where   14 cheetahs await re-release in the wild. They were caught   and brought back to bomas following 6 cheetah deaths after septicemia caused by abrasion from   satellite collars.   Uttam ..read more
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Selfie With Leopard
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by The Wildlife India
7M ago
Over fifty people in a village of central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh risked their life as they played around an ailing leopard .The leopard was    spotted in an isolated area of Eklara Mata village, about 70 kms away from the district headquarter of the industrial town  of Dewas on August 29. The spotted cat is suffering from some neurological disorder which may have been caused by rabies of ..read more
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Tiger Parts Seizure in Assam Shows Unprotected Areas Are Poachers' Paradise
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by The Wildlife India
8M ago
Recent seizure of bones and skin of a tiger in Assam leading to arrest of poachers and a  tiger part trader ,former employee of Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB,) should be a wake up call for the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) . Body parts of the tiger  from Chandrapur -Gadchiroli districts in Maharashtra were confiscated   more than 2000 kms away in Assam in the last week of ..read more
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Another Cheetah Dies in Kuno as African Experts Plea the Sc for Transparency in the Project
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by The Wildlife India
8M ago
 While reporting for  television and the print media during a long period of over three decades , I noticed a tendency of Indian bureaucracy - most of the bureaucrats in India seem to have trained themselves for hiding information. There is also lack of transparency especially while dealing with the community outside their sphere. International experts in cheetah translocation project  in Kuno ..read more
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Tiger Reserves In Waiting : Tale of Mhadei and Ratapani Sanctuaries
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by The Wildlife India
8M ago
  On July 24, the Goa bench of Bombay High Court took the help of an ancient Indian epic Mahabharata to explain  the state government the importance of  the tiger . “If there is no forest, then the tiger gets killed; if there is no tiger, then the forest gets destroyed. Hence, the tiger protects the forest, and the forest guards the tiger!” The court cited the epic  while directing the government ..read more
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Bringing African Cheetahs to India a Wrong Decision ?
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by The Wildlife India
9M ago
 India’s cheetah project has derailed as it faces an unprecedented crisis, not  even anticipated  by the cheetah managers- neither from Africa nor Indian. Though the project- wrapped in secrecy-  envisioned a high mortality of cheetah , the present cause of deaths did not find any mention in the Cheetah Action Plan. There are more issues including  politics, bureaucratic hurdles and red tapism  ..read more
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Plans Begin To Capture All Cheetahs To Remove Collars Amidst MoEFC&C Denial
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by The Wildlife India
9M ago
    In a huge embarrassment to   senior  members of  the Steering Committee for Cheetah project and  international experts including Laurie Marker of Cheetah Conservation Fund(CCF), one of the biggest   names in cheetah conservation in the world, the Union ministry of Environment forest and climate change (MoEFC&C)  denied cheetah deaths due to collar wounds in Kuno national park. On Saturday ..read more
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Not Leopards, A Different Predator is Killing Kuno Cheetahs
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by The Wildlife India
9M ago
 When the cheetah project was planned ,   the presence of a large number of leopards  in Kuno national park was  considered as the biggest threat of the  smaller spotted cats. But an altogether new predator- unknown and unheard of- is stalking the African cheetahs in Kuno killing two cheetahs. Namibia to South Africa to Delhi, cheetah managers have expressed grave concern. It is a 400  gram ..read more
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Back to Back Cheetah Deaths in Kuno: South African Expert Unhappy Over Communication Gap
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by The Wildlife India
9M ago
 Close on the heels of the death of Tejas, the male cheetah, another cheetah died in Kuno national park on Friday  ( July 14) .  This is the first cheetah casualty in the open forest of Kuno where Suraj , the sub- adult who died , was released on June 25. Suraj’s body carried injury marks, perhaps, the result of a fight with some carnivore. The male cheetah died two days after Tejas whose body ..read more
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