Bhopal: National Tiger Conservation Authority, which is overseeing the ambitious Cheetah reintroduction project in the country. A meeting has been called in New Delhi on Monday in connection with the death of cheetahs transferred from Namibia to KNP. According to some experts, a cheetah needs an area of ​​about 100 square kilometers for its movement. The KNP is spread over an area of ​​748 sq km and its buffer zone is 487 sq km.
Yadvendradev Vikram Singh Jhala, former dean of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), who was formerly part of the Cheetah Project. He pointed out that KNP has insufficient space for these animals. We have to create (more than one) cheetah population and manage it as a metapopulation. Where you transport animals from one place to another. It is very important to establish second, third. Kuno is a protected area, but the landscape in which cheetahs can live in Kuno extends over 5,000 square kilometers, including agricultural areas, forested habitats, and communities living within the area. He said that if cheetahs can adapt to this environment, they will be able to flourish in KNP.
Vikram Singh Jhala said, it all depends on how we manage the communities. Ecotourism, promoting them, ensuring that the level of (human-animal) conflict is properly compensated. When asked about the population, he said KNP is one site, Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve (in Rajasthan) is one site, Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary and Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh are two other sites. Not each of these sites is viable on its own. To move one or three cheetahs one after the other, two generations from here is called metapopulation management, causing genetic exchange. This is an important exercise. Without this, we cannot manage cheetahs in our country. If we start developing Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary or Nauradehi Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh as alternative sites, he said. So it will take two and three years respectively. Cheetahs from two African countries have been brought to India as part of an ambitious intercontinental translocation program to revive their populations in the country seven decades after their extinction. The country's last cheetah died in 1947 in Koriya district of present-day Chhattisgarh and the species was declared extinct in 1952.
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