{"id":116094,"date":"2022-09-19T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=116094"},"modified":"2022-09-19T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:36:15","slug":"india-to-be-home-to-cheetahs-after-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-to-be-home-to-cheetahs-after-70-years\/","title":{"rendered":"India To Be Home to Cheetahs After 70 Years&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>India To Be Home to Cheetahs After 70 Years\u00a0: <\/strong>Eight African\u00a0cheetahs\u00a0are all set to move\u00a0from Namibia\u00a0into their new habitat at the\u00a0Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, on September 17, on\u00a0Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-september-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PM is expected to release the five female and three male cheetahs into the Park\u2019s quarantine enclosures on Friday as part of his efforts to revitalise and diversify the country\u2019s wildlife and habitat, his office has said. The&nbsp;last cheetah in India died in 1947&nbsp;in the Korea district in present-day&nbsp;Chhattisgarh,&nbsp;which was an earlier part of Madhya Pradesh, and the species was&nbsp;declared extinct from India in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the cheetah has lost 90 per cent of its global habitat in the last 100 years. In addition, in many of the 31 populations of the cheetah, only 100-200 are left with their habitat consistently deteriorating. The \u2018African Cheetah Introduction Project in India\u2018 was conceived in 2009, with a plan to introduce the big cat by November last year in Kuno National Park, but it suffered a setback due to the&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India To Be Home to Cheetahs After 70 Years\u00a0: Eight African\u00a0cheetahs\u00a0are all set to move\u00a0from Namibia\u00a0into their new habitat at the\u00a0Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, on September 17, on\u00a0Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s birthday. September 2022 Current Affairs Quiz The PM is expected to release the five female and three male cheetahs into the Park\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":116095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4926],"tags":[101,4916],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-116094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2022","tag-madhya-pradesh-current-affairs","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116096,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116094\/revisions\/116096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116094"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=116094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}