{"id":17291,"date":"2023-09-18T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17291"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:38:31","slug":"project-cheetah-completes-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-09-2023\/project-cheetah-completes-one-year","title":{"rendered":"Project Cheetah Completes One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus:GS3\/ Environment, Conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Project Cheetah, was completed one year when the first batch of eight cheetahs from Namibia arrived on September 17, 2022 in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Background<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus),<\/strong> is one of the world\u2019s most-recognizable cats, known especially for its speed.In India, the cheetah population used to be fairly widespread.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The cheetah is believed to have <strong>disappeared from the Indian landscape in 1947<\/strong> when Maharaja Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo of Koriya princely state hunted down and shot the last three recorded Asiatic cheetahs in India.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The cheetah was officially<strong> declared extinct <\/strong>by the Indian government in <strong>1952.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Since the 1940s, the cheetah has gone extinct in 14 other countries \u2013 Jordan, Iraq, Israel, Morocco, Syria, Oman, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Ghana, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reason for Extinction<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Over-hunting<\/strong> was a major contributing factor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The decimation of its relatively<strong> narrow prey<\/strong> base species and&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The<strong> loss of its grassland-forest habitat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What is Project Cheetah?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Project Cheetah is<strong> India\u2019s cheetah relocation programme<\/strong>. It aims to bring back independent India\u2019s only extinct large mammal.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As part of the project, <strong>50 cheetahs<\/strong> will be introduced in various National Parks <strong>over five years.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The goal of the introduction<\/strong> of African cheetahs is to \u201cestablish viable cheetah metapopulation in India that allows the cheetah to perform its functional role as a top predator and provides space for the expansion of the cheetah within its historical range thereby contributing to its global conservation efforts.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Status of the Project Cheetah<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In total, 20 adult African cheetahs have been imported so far and were relocated in <strong>Kuno National Park.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The first batch of <strong>eight cheetahs<\/strong> arrived<strong> in September 2022 from Namibia<\/strong> and another batch of <strong>12 cheetahs from South Africa<\/strong> arrived in February 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is the first time in the world that a large carnivore has been relocated from one continent to another.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In March 2023, one of the females gave birth to a litter of four cubs which were conceived in India. However only one of the cubs survived.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also out of 20 cheetahs six have died so far.Currently, all the surviving 14 adult cheetahs and one cub are in captivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Kuno National Park<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br><\/span>&#8211; The park is located in the<strong> Vindhyan Hills<\/strong> of Central India in <strong>Madhya Pradesh.<\/strong> The Kuno River flows through the national park.<br>&#8211; It was established in <strong>1981<\/strong> as a wildlife sanctuary. In<strong> 2018<\/strong>, it was given the status of a national park.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Difference Between Asiatic Cheetah and African Cheetah<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Asiatic Cheetah (Acinonyx Jubatus Venaticus)<\/span><\/strong><\/td><td><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">African Cheetah (Acinonyx Jubatus Jubatus)<\/span><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>IUCN status<\/strong>: critically endangered<\/td><td><strong>IUCN status<\/strong>: vulnerable<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Distribution: <\/strong>Only 12 cheetahs are left in the wild<\/td><td><strong>Distribution: <\/strong>Around 6,500-7,000 African cheetahs are present in the wild.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><span style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);\"><b>Characteristics<\/b><\/span><strong>: Smaller<\/strong> and paler than the African cheetah.<\/td><td><strong>Characteristics:<\/strong> They are bigger in size as compared to Asiatic Cheetah.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/project-cheetah-a-year-on\/article67319379.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus:GS3\/ Environment, Conservation News Background Reason for Extinction What is Project Cheetah? Status of the Project Cheetah Kuno National Park&#8211; The park is located in the Vindhyan Hills of Central India in Madhya Pradesh. The Kuno River flows through the national park.&#8211; It was established in 1981 as a wildlife sanctuary. 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