Project Cheetah is an ill-advised wildlife relocation that seems doomed to failure - Conservation Action Trust

Project Cheetah is an ill-advised wildlife relocation that seems doomed to failure - Conservation Action Trust

Wildlife relocation projects that fail to acknowledge environmental and social issues highlight an urgent need for conservationists to engage in scientifically grounded and locally accepted conservation strategies.   In an ill-advised attempt to establish a population of African cheetahs in India, Project Cheetah aimed to restore India’s long-extinct cheetah population. To initiate this, 20 cheetahs from southern Africa were sent to Kuno Nationa…