Winford Chang
Cheetahs will be reintroduced into Indian lands after being extinct in that area for 70 years.
The Indian government has accepted an MOU (agreement to proceed) on July 19, 2022. The agreement seeks to increase biodiversity in India and conservation of current and new species.
The Indian cheetah population was declared extinct in 1952 after years of rigorous hunting, food depletion, and habitat loss. The reintroduction of the cheetah will start by having cheetahs shipped to private breeding grounds to slowly increase the population of the cheetah.
Cheetahs are not well throughout the entire world though. Being an endangered species there are few cheetahs left in the wild with there being only around 8000 left. In recent dances the decline of the cheetah has been more than 50% and many common problems such as delabialization, hunting, and food resources being taken have caused it.
Credits:
Cheetahs: On the brink of extinction, again. National Geographic Society. (n.d.). Retrieved August 10, 2022, from https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/cheetahs-brink-extinction-again
Shad, N. (2022, July 20). Cheetahs to Prowl India for first time in 70 years. BBC News. Retrieved August 10, 2022, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62239811
