The document summarizes plans to reintroduce cheetahs back into India. It provides background that cheetahs went extinct in India but used to have a wide distribution across the country. The reintroduction is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Environment and Forests and state forest departments. The goals are to help restore balance to ecosystems by returning an apex predator, bring back a species that is extinct in India, and improve wildlife habitats.

1. REINTRODUCTION OF CHEETAH IN INDIA
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Meet Chintu Cheetah , the Mascot for Cheetah
Reintroduction Program in India at none other than our
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Bhagwani .

3. • 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??
Few questions that you may have in your mind
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4. Could you able to recognize these Animals??
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5. Cheetah
Cheetah –Apex carnivore in the Terrestrial Ecosystem
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6. 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.
Distribution

7. 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.
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8. Habitats
Semi desert Grassland and plains
Bushland
African plains
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9. Prey Species
Cheetahs mainly eats Gazelles, Wildbeast, Impalas, Wildboar, Chinkara, Blackbuck, Sambar deer and other smaller herbivores.
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10. • Historically, Asiatic
distribution in India.
cheetahs had a very wide
• 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.
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What was the distribution of cheetahs in India?
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11. 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.
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12. 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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