India has received a second shipment of cheetahs from Namibia and South Africa in the past five months in a bid to repopulate its territory with the animal, which was declared extinct in the country in 1952.
Five months ago, the first shipment arrived from Namibia, which included eight cheetahs. This country has twelve more and is already on its way to its final destination, Kuno National Park.
The plan of African countries and India is to transfer 12 cheetahs to this Asian country in the next eight to ten years.
India has good cooperation with African countries in general, and this seems to be carrying over into zoology. Due to overhunting, this species became extinct in India more than 70 years ago, but now this is changing.
There are less than seven thousand cheetahs in the world. Most of them are located in Namibia, Botswana, Kenya and Tanzania, the BBC reports.
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