Kuno welcomes four more cheetah cubs

Cheetah Neerva has given birth to four cubs at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on Monday and hailed their arrival as a boost to the project that restored a species which vanished from India decades ago.

Prior to this, 17 cheetah cubs had been born at the park, where the fastest land animal on earth was translocated from Namibia more than two years ago. With 12 of those cubs surviving, the count of cheetahs was last reported to be 24. With the birth of four more cubs, their count has gone up to 16.

“Today the Cheetah Project has achieved great success. In Kuno National Park, female cheetah Neerva has given birth to four cubs, which is a great achievement not only for the state but also for the country,” Yadav stated in a post on X.