Windhoek: A specially customized jet has arrived in Namibia to bring cheetahs to India’s Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh where they will be reintroduced in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 17.
The Indian High Commission in Windhoek, Namibia took to Twitter and added that “A special bird touches down in the Land of the Brave to carry goodwill ambassadors to the Land of the Tiger,”.
PM Modi will inaugurate the ‘Re-introduction of the Cheetah’ project at the Kuno National Park in the Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh.
He will further release cheetahs being brought from Africa into the state’s forests. The big cat species will be reintroduced in India after 70 years since being declared extinct in 1952.
(With Agency Inputs)