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from South Africa’s environmental department, which added the plan was to relocate “a further 12 annually for the next eight to 10 years”.
The reason behind this mass relocation is to “achieve a number of ecological objectives”, including restoring the role of the cheetah within India, where the endangered cats used to roam, and “enhancing the livelihood options and economies of the local communities”.Experts share that in 1952, the Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India. Habitat loss and deaths at the hands of hunters seeking their distinctive spotted hides lead to the loss of these felines.
There has been a major push by India's Supreme Court to reintroduce the animals after they ruled that African cheetahs, a different subspecies, could be brought into the country at a"carefully chosen location" on an experimental basis.
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