A male hoolock gibbon has used an artificial canopy bridge over a railway line in Assam — the first documented instance anywhere in the world of a gibbon crossing a railway canopy structure. Meanwhile, 22 days after four cheetah cubs were found dead at Kuno, the post-mortem findings remain unpublished.
Project Cheetah
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.
India’s land records classify open grasslands as “wasteland” because they carry no trees. That single word is why the Great Indian Bustard is disappearing, why the blackbuck needs reintroduction programmes, and why the cheetah has no secured wild habitat to return to.
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Kuno National Park now houses 50 cheetahs — and the scramble to find them more room is well underway.