- The Union environment ministry has constituted a nine-member task force for monitoring the reintroduction of cheetahs into the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
- Eight cheetahs were brought to India from Namibia on September 17 this year — on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday — 70 years after they were declared extinct in the country and were released in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park in Sheopur and Morena districts.
- The task force will review the health status of cheetahs and monitor their hunting skills and adaptation to the habitat.
- It will monitor the release of cheetahs from quarantine bomas to soft release enclosures and then to grass land and open forest areas.
- The panel will also give suggestions and advice on the development of tourism infrastructure in the fringe areas of the Kuno National Park and other protected areas.
