PM Modi released 8 cheetahs from Namibia in the Kuno National Sanctuary on 17 September last year.

12 more cheetahs from South Africa can reach India in January.

Sources gave this information on Tuesday.

A source in the Union Environment Ministry said that talks with the South African authorities are in the final stages to relocate the 12 cheetahs to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh and these cheetahs may arrive in January.

Officials of the Kuno National Park made a presentation on preparations for bringing back seven male and five female cheetahs at the 20th convention of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) at Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka. The cheetahs were kept in isolation in South Africa for the past six months. Has gone.

Sources said a memorandum of understanding for the inter-continental translocation of cheetahs is yet to be signed.

About 12-14 wild cheetahs (8 to 10 males and 4 to 6 females) are to be imported from South Africa, Namibia and other African countries, according to the 'Action Plan for Re-introduction of Cheetahs in India' prepared by the Wildlife Institute of India.

This number is suitable to increase the number of cheetahs in the country.

Under the program, initially these cheetahs will come for five years and later more cheetahs can be brought if needed.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had released the first batch of eight cheetahs from Namibia at the Kuno National Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh on his birthday on September 17.

Among them there were five females and three males.

Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Kumar Choubey informed Parliament last month that all eight cheetahs in Kuno have now been released into the larger compound.

He had said that no health complication has been observed in cheetahs. Cheetahs became extinct in the country in 1952 and after 70 years this animal was brought to India last year.

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