A young cheetah has died of gunshot wounds in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, raising questions about how an animal that officials say is tracked around the clock came to be shot.
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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.
Gujarat marked National Forest Martyrs’ Day on Friday by handing ₹50 lakh to the family of Vikas Desai, the Vyara range forest officer killed in July while chasing down a truck loaded with stolen timber.