A cheetah cub has died in Madhya Pradesh, the seventh cheetah death in India this year, and a request for the post-mortem reports on every cheetah lost since the reintroduction began has just been turned down on grounds of national security.
Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary
India’s first high-altitude wildlife safari has begun in Ladakh, with the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor flagging off six vehicles on Wednesday for trips built around snow leopards.
Gaurav, one of the eight Namibian cheetahs that founded India’s cheetah reintroduction programme in 2022, died at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, four days after an India-born cheetah at the same reserve gave birth to a second litter, having lost her first four cubs to suspected predation in May.
Four one-month-old cubs of female cheetah KGP12 — born in the wild on April 11 — were found dead near their den site in Sheopur on May 12. The Cheetah Project says the mother is safe, and India’s total cheetah count now stands at 53.