South Africa plays an active role in providing founders for the population and range expansion of iconic species such as cheetahs,” the statement said. “Conservation translocations have become a common practice to conserve species and restore ecosystems. This includes human-wildlife conflict resolution, capture and translocation of wildlife and community participation in conservation in the two countries. The MoU facilitates cooperation between the two countries to establish a viable and secure cheetah population in India promotes conservation and ensures that expertise is shared and exchanged, and capacity is built to promote cheetah conservation. The 12 South African cheetahs will join eight others from Namibia that have already been in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh since last year as part of India's attempts to reintroduce the cats following their local extinction in 1952 due to overhunting and loss of habitat.Įarlier this year, the governments of South Africa and India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation on the Re-introduction of Cheetah to India.

“It is because of South Africa's successful conservation practices that our country can participate in a project such as this - to restore a species in a former range state and thus contribute to the the future survival of the species,” said Barbara Creecy, the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. The Department of Fisheries, Forestry and the Environment has approved the export of up to 29 wild cheetahs per annum to support the conservation efforts for the species outside of the country, the statement said. Since 1994 (when Mandela was installed as President) cheetahs have been reintroduced into 63 newly established game reserves that currently support a combined metapopulation of 460 individuals, it said.Īlso Read | Russia: Andrei Pivovarov, Kremlin Critic, Missing Amid Prison Transfer, Say Allies.

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