Cheetah
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Cheetah
Subject – Environment
Context – Kuno not ready ecologically at the moment to accept cheetahs: Faiyaz Khudsar
Concept –
- India has been in talks to get 8-12 cheetahs from South Africa in the end of November. The plan is to introduce them to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The National Tiger Conservation Authority has been asked to oversee this process surprising many.
- The cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952. Since then, the grasslands of the country, of which the cheetah was the keystone species, have also disappeared.
- The cheetah is also the world’s fastest land mammal.
- It is listed as vulnerable in IUCN red listed species.
(Note – A guild is any group of species that exploit the same resources, or that exploit different resources in related ways.)
Kuno National Park
- Kuno is a National park in Madhya Pradesh, India.
- It was established, in 1981, as a wildlife sanctuary in the Sheopur and Morena districts. It was also known as Kuno-Palpur and Palpur-Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary.
- In 2018, it was given the status of a National Park.
- It is part of the Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests ecoregion.
- The protected area is largely dry, deciduous forest.