Expressing joy over the birth of the two cubs, MP CM Dr Mohan Yadav posted on X, “2 cheetah cubs entered the Jungle Book of MP…I’m very happy to share this information that the number of cheetahs is constantly increasing in MP. Congratulations to all the officers, doctors and field staff associated with the project; as a result of their tireless hard work, today MP is also known as the ‘land of cheetahs’.”Veera, which gave birth to the two cubs, is known to have an adventurous nature. While being in the free ranging forests of KNP last summer, it had strayed out of the KNP boundaries into the adjoining Gwalior district after travelling through the villages and jungles of Morena district. In May 2024, Veera had attacked a herd of goats, taking down three in front of a shepherd.The birth of the two healthy cheetah cubs to Veera took place nearly three months after two newborn cubs of another SA cheetah Nirva were found dead in a mutilated state in one of the enclosures.More than seven decades after the fastest moving animal on earth became extinct in the Indian wild due to rampant poaching, eight semi-adult and adult cheetahs from Namibia were reintroduced at the KNP in MP’s Sheopur district on September 17, 2022. Five months later in February 2023, the first batch of 12 cheetahs flown from South Africa under the same inter-continental cheetah translocation project were introduced at KNP. Out of those 20 semi-adult and adult African cheetahs, eight have died due to multiple reasons.
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