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The Wildlife India
3M 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
The Wildlife India
7M 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
The Wildlife India
8M 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
The Wildlife India
9M 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
The Wildlife India
9M 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
The Wildlife India
9M 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
The Wildlife India
10M 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
The Wildlife India
10M 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
The Wildlife India
10M 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
The Wildlife India
10M 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