Cheetahs to India from Namibia on PM Modi’s birthday: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the cheetahs brought from Namibia to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) on Saturday morning. PM Modi will be in Madhya Pradesh on his birthday to release wild cheetahs in Kuno National Park. Here is the full schedule of PM Modi:-
– The special cargo plane carrying eight Namibian cheetahs will land at Gwalior airport in Madhya Pradesh around 6 am on September 17, which is also Modi’s birthday, a senior official from police.
– PM Modi will arrive at Gwalior Airport from New Delhi around 9.20 am and leave for Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district, about 165 km away.
– He will release cheetahs in the quarantine enclosures around 10.45 am
– The cats will be transferred to KNP in a helicopter.
A special bird lands in the Land of the Brave to bring goodwill ambassadors to the Land of the Tiger.#AmritMahotsav #IndiaNamibia pic.twitter.com/vmV0ffBncO
— India in Namibia (@IndiainNamibia) September 14, 2022
According to the earlier plan, the special plane carrying the big cats from the African country was to land at Jaipur airport, from where they were to be taken to KNP, about 400 km from the Rajasthan capital.
The Prime Minister’s release of wild cheetahs in the KNP is part of his efforts to revitalize and diversify India’s wildlife and its habitat, a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said on Thursday .
The introduction of India’s fastest land animal is being done under Project Cheetah, which is the world’s first intercontinental large wild carnivore translocation project, the statement said.
Speaking to PTI on Friday, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) JS Chauhan said, “The cheetahs will reach Gwalior and from there they will be flown in a special helicopter to KNP.”
The Indian High Commission in Windhoek, Namibia tweets the image of the Indian plane that has arrived in Namibia to receive cheetahs to be taken to Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be present at the park on September 17 for the re-introduction. pic.twitter.com/jl3Rk4bigS
— ANI (@ANI) September 15, 2022
8 Cheetahs
The eight cheetahs – five females and three males – will be flown from Namibia’s capital Windhoek to Gwalior Airport in a customized Boeing 747-400 aircraft, officials said earlier.
Chauhan said from Gwalior that the cheetahs will be flown to the KNP helipad in an IAF Chinook heavy lift helicopter. According to the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), an international non-profit organization based in Namibia dedicated to saving the fastest land animal, the five female cheetahs bound for India are between two and five years old, while that the males have an age of between two and five years. between 4.5 years and 5.5 years.
#I WILL SEE | First image of cheetahs to be brought from Namibia to India on September 17 at KUNO National Park in Madhya Pradesh pic.twitter.com/HOjexYWtE6
— ANI (@ANI) September 16, 2022
The last cheetah
India’s last cheetah died in 1947 in Korea district in present-day Chhattisgarh, formerly part of Madhya Pradesh, and the species was declared extinct in India in 1952. The “Project African Cheetah in India” was conceived in 2009 and A plan to introduce the big cat in November last year in KNP was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said. civil servants
Cheetahs will help restore open forest and grassland ecosystems in India. This will help conserve biodiversity and improve ecosystem services such as water security, carbon sequestration and soil moisture conservation, benefiting society at large, he said.
After releasing cheetahs, Modi will participate in a plantation program at Karahal in Sheopur district and later reach a local school to participate in a self-help group (SHG) conference, officials said.
After the SHG programme, the Prime Minister will arrive in Gwalior and after a brief stay in the city, will leave for New Delhi in the afternoon, they said.
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