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Four Cheetah Cubs Found Dead in MP's Kuno National Park
- On Tuesday, four one-month-old cheetah cubs were found dead near their den site in Kuno National Park, Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh, with monitoring teams discovering partially eaten carcasses around 6.30 a.m.
- Born to female cheetah KGP12 on April 11, these cubs were the first to be born in the open forest since Project Cheetah launched in 2022; the mother remains safe and healthy in the wild.
- Madhya Pradesh Principal Chief Conservator Samita Rajora noted that post-mortem examinations revealed marks of a leopard attack; Kuno Field Director and Project Cheetah Director Uttam Kumar Sharma said a thorough investigation is underway.
- With the latest deaths, India's total cheetah population has fallen to 53, with 50 remaining at Kuno and three cheetahs at the Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary in Mandsaur and Neemuch districts.
- The incident marks the largest number of cheetah casualties in one instance at Kuno, following last year's deaths when two cubs died including one struck by a vehicle on the Agra Mumbai National Highway in Gwalior.
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Four cheetah cubs die at Kuno in suspected leopard attack
The deaths in Madhya Pradesh hold significance as the four cubs were the first to be born in the open forest since India’s reintroduction programme for the big cat species — Project Cheetah — was launched in 2022; this is the largest number of cheetah casualties at Kuno in one instance, which witnessed the birth of several cubs in recent months.
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