Team News Riveting
Bhopal, February 18
The 12 cheetahs airlifted from South Africa were released into the quarantine enclosures at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Minister for Environment and Forests Bhupender Yadav released the felines in the park. The fresh group include seven males and five females – comprise the second set of big cats coming to the state.
With the first group of eight from Namibia released into the KNP by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 17 last year, the number of cheetahs in the park rose to 20.
Earlier, an Indian Ait Force (IAF) C-17 aircraft carrying the second batch of 12 cheetahs in special wooden boxes landed at Air Force Station Gwalior today at around 10 am, after a 10-hour flight from Johannesburg, South Africa. The Cheetahs were airlifted to KNP in three Mi-17 IAF helicopters.
