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Reintroduction of Cheetah in

India

Source :Google images


Few questions may be
asked

• What do you know about Cheetah??

• Why do we need Cheetah??

• How may of you wanted to see Cheetah??

• Have you heard that Cheetah got extinct from India??

• Have you heard that Cheetah will be coming back to


India??
Could you able to recognize these
Animals??

Source :Google images


Cheetah –Apex carnivore in the Terrestrial
Ecosystem

Cheetah

Source :Google images


Distribution

Courtesy :IUCN

Historically ranging throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa and extending eastward into the Middle East and to
central India, the cheetah is now distributed mainly in small, fragmented populations in central Iran and southern,
eastern and northwestern Africa.
Basic facts

• The word Cheetah is derived from the Sanskrit: चित्रय (Chitra-


ya)
meaning 'variegated', 'adorned' or 'painted.

• Cheetahs are the fastest land animal on earth with top speed
113
km/hour

• While running they use their tail to help steer

• Weight :50-64 kg

• Life span 12-13 years

• They are diurnal, hunting in the late morning and early evening.

• Cheetahs can not roar, instead they purr and growl.


Source :Google images
Habitats

Bushland

Grassland and plains African plains


Semi desert Source :Google images
Prey Species

Cheetahs mainly eats Gazelles, Wildbeast, Impalas, Wildboar, Chinkara, Blackbuck, Sambar deer and other smaller
herbivores. Source :Google images
What was the distribution of cheetahs in
India?
• Historically, cheetahs had a very
Asiatic wide
distribution in India.
• There are authentic reports of their occurrence from
as far north as Punjab to Tirunelveli district in
southern Tamil Nadu, from Gujarat and Rajasthan in
the west to Bengal in the east.

• Most of the records are from a belt extending from


Gujarat passing through Maharashtra, Madhya
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and
Odisha.

• There is also a cluster of reports from southern


Maharashtra extending to parts of Karnataka,
Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
•

Source :Google images


Cheetah Reintroduction in India

The Reintroduction of Cheetah in India


is a combined efforts of The Ministry
of Environment, Forest & Climate
change (NTCA & WII) in collaboration
with Madhya Pradesh Forest
Department.

Source :Google images


Why Cheetah Reintroduction in India ?

• Large carnivores are keystone species in the ecosystems where they inhabit. Their loss
may provoke an imbalance at several levels of the ecosystem.

• The Cheetah is only species extinct from the historical times.

• Bring back cheetahs will provide better management and restoration of wildlife habitats
(Grasslands. Scrublands and open forest ecosystem).

• The cheetah has been the evolutionary natural section force that shaped adaption of high
speed prey species such as antelopes and gazelles.

• The animal charismatic in its own right, therefore, it has special significance for the
National conservation ethics and ethos.

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