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          India releases eight cheetahs into wild, decades after local extinction

          PM Narendra Modi released cheetahs flown in from Namibia into special enclosure in Kuno National Park of Madhya Pradesh on his 72nd birthday.

          Last updated on - Sep 17, 2022, 12:14 IST

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          Eight cheetahs from Namibia landed in Gwalior on Saturday, as part of the programme to reintroduce the feline in India seven decades after it was declared extinct in the country.
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          Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is celebrating his birthday, released three cheetahs in quarantine enclosures of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh around 11.30 am.
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          After the modified Boeing 747 landed at the Gwalior airbase at 7.47 am, the felines were flown in two Air Force helicopters to Palpur near the Park.
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          A viral video showed the crates carrying the cheetahs stacked in what was earlier the “economy” section of the Boeing aircraft.
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          After the plane landed at Gwalior, the ground personnel were seen helping transfer the crates, marked Live Animals, to the waiting choppers.
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          The aircraft, which took off from the African country Friday night, carried the cheetahs in the special wooden crates during the around 10-hour journey.
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          Before their flight from Namibia, the cheetahs, the fastest land animals in the world, were treated with a tranquilizer that lasts for three to five days.
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          The animals were flown to the park in Sheopur district, 165 km away from Gwalior. The journey took about 20-25 minutes, an official said.
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          The cheetahs remained without food during the transcontinental journey and will be given something to eat now that they have been released in the enclosures, the official said.
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          A dais was set up in the Park under which special cages carrying cheetahs were kept and Modi, who turned 72 on Saturday, released three of them in an enclosure by operating a lever.
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