Recently, an adult free-ranging cheetah named Pawan died after ‘drowning’ has created a controversy over India’s conservation plan. Experts say Cheetahs can swim and cannot drown. Postmortem reports of the animal are not yet put in public.Yadav said there are 57 tiger reserves in the country encompassing 79 thousand sq. kilometers. There are 33 elephant reserves along with.The cheetah was formally declared extinct from India in 1952. According to the wildlife research organisation, Bombay Natural History Society, the last three cheetahs were killed in 1947 by the king of Koriya, a princely state of Central India.The main reasons for the decline of grassland species were large-scale capture of animals from the wild for coursing, bounty and sport hunting, extensive habitat conversion along with consequent decline in prey base.India re-introduced cheetah on 17 September 2022, bringing eight of the big cats (five female and three male cheetahs). In February 2023, India brought another batch of 12 cheetahs from South Africa. Now, It has been planning to bring it from Kenya on an experimental basis.
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