Mother among 20 of the big cats flown in from Africa as part of plan to reintroduce animal to country
Three cheetah cubs born to a big cat that was brought to India from Africa last year have died in central India’s Kuno national park in the past week as a heatwave in the region sent temperatures soaring.
The cubs were the first to be born in India in more than seven decades. Once widespread in India, cheetahs became extinct in 1952 from hunting and habitat loss. Their mother was among the 20 cheetahs India flew in from Namibia and South Africa as part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce the world’s fastest land animal to the South Asian country.
