Official sources at KNP confirmed the birth of cubs to South African cheetah Nirva and added that the exact number of newborns will be known by Tuesday.Since March 2023, seventeen cubs have been born at KNP, the first home of African cheetahs in India since September 2022. Out of these, 12 have survived. The oldest of them, an 18-month-old female named Mukhi, was abandoned by its Namibian mother, Siyaya, shortly after birth in March 2023.KNP currently houses 12 adult cheetahs and 12 cubs, all kept in enclosures.More than seven decades after the fastest land animal became extinct in India due to rampant poaching, eight semi-adult and adult cheetahs from Namibia were reintroduced to KNP in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district on September 17, 2022. Five months later, in February 2023, a batch of 12 cheetahs was flown from South Africa as part of the same inter-continental cheetah translocation project.Out of the 20 semi-adult and adult African cheetahs introduced, eight have died due to various reasons.
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