Namibian Cheetah Sasha dies in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh from kidney disease
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Namibian Cheetah Sasha dies in Indian state of Madhya Pradesh from kidney disease
A total of eight cheetahs were introduced to India from Namibia in September last year as part of the world's first inter-continental transfer of large wild carnivorous animals. It included five females and three males that were introduced at Kano National Park (KNP) in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. One of the these five female cheetahs died on Monday after developing a kidney infection in January. During a daily monitoring check, Sasha ha
Cheetah Brought To Madhya Pradesh's Kuno from Namibia Dies of Kidney Ailment
Around six months after she was translocated to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP) from Namibia, a female cheetah named Sasha died on Monday, 27 March, due to a kidney ailment, a top forest department official said. The death of the four-and-a-half-year-old animal is a setback to Project Cheetah, which was initiated to revive the population of the world's fastest land animal in India, 70 years after they became extinct. In September 2022,…
Namibian Cheetah Sasha introduced at Kuno National Park dies of kidney ailment
Namibian cheetah Sasha died due to a kidney ailment on Monday at Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP), a top forest department official said. The more than four-and-a-half years old female cheetah was among the eight cheetahs translocated from Namibia and housed in the KNP in Sheopur district since September 17.
Cheetah from Namibia dies in MP's Kuno due to kidney ailment
After becoming extinct in 1952, eight cheetahs had been brought from Africa's Namibia last year. 'Project Cheetah' is part of the government's efforts to revitalize and diversify the country's wildlife and habitat.
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