The Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh is set to get 13 cheetahs in 2022.

Key Points

• The Kuno National Park was originally developed as the second home for Asiatic lions in India, apart from Gir National Park. However, that project did not take off.
• But now the park is expecting to get 13 African cheetahs, which is being described as the largest intercontinental animal translocation in the world.
• Of all, 13 cheetahs have been carefully selected. 10 are from South Africa while 3 are from Namibia.

Significance of the project

The project is crucial in India. It would mean the introduction of fastest animal on Earth into the wild, after 69 years of last surviving cheetah was recorded to have been hunted down in 1952 in Chhattisgarh.