The prime minister’s vainglorious attempt to reintroduce big cats to India was doomed from the start, scientists and conservationists say.
—seemed to be saying he could turn back time and bring these beautiful creatures home to a resurgent India.The first eight cheetahs arrived from Namibia last September, and another 12 cheetahs from South Africa were introduced to the Kuno National Park—located in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh—in February this year.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi releases wild cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh, India, on Sept. 17, 2022.While the ambitious plan to reintroduce cheetahs was being put into action, there were murmurs of concern among India’s wildlife community. They said the plan was “ecologically unsound” besides being costly and “may serve as a distraction rather than help global cheetah conservation efforts.”
“In saving it, one would have to save not only its prey base comprising certain threatened species but also other endangered species of the grasslands, some of which are on the brink of extinction,” the Wildlife Institute of India’s action plan says. According to these scientists, cheetahs in southern Africa live within a stable socio-spatial system, characterized by widely spread territories and low population densities of less than one individual per 40 square miles.
“They should have introduced one or two cheetahs initially, instead of 20.” He thinks experimenting and studying a smaller number of these big cats in the park could have led to a better understanding of how best to save the species. He thinks the cheetah project was a personal vanity project of the Indian prime minister. And the lack of proper planning is now leading to these felines losing lives.
Former Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh also joined the chorus of voices hitting out at Modi’s government over its handling of the cheetah reintroduction program. He said if “science” rather than “vanity” had been put at the forefront of the project “we may not have witnessed the current tragedy.”Amid all the criticism, drama and politics of the big cat deaths, the government of India stayed defiant.
And yet, on July 24, the radio collars were removed from at least six cheetahs in the Kuno National Park. The Indian government also removed Madhya Pradesh’s chief wildlife warden, Jasbir Singh Chauhan from his post after the deaths of two of the magnificent felines in quick succession. Chauhan is a widely respected wildlife expert in India whose removal shocked the community.
“They [BJP government] wanted to keep all the cheetahs here [in the Kuno National Park] in Madhya Pradesh,” the source said. The receipt of the letter was not even acknowledged.
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