26 May 2023

Three of four cheetah cubs born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year have died in Kuno National Park in the past week, forest officials said, as a heatwave in the region sent temperatures soaring.

The cubs were the first to be born in India in more than 70 years. Once widespread in India, cheetahs became extinct there in 1952 from hunting and habitat loss.

Their mother was among the 20 cheetahs that India flew in from Namibia and South Africa as part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce the world’s fastest land animal to the South Asian country.

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