The Indian government's plan to introduce African cheetahs into the wild in India after relocating them from the African continent has been criticized by many conservationists who call the idea "ecologically and scientifically flawed."
The Indian government's plan to introduce African cheetahs into the wild in India after relocating them from the African continent has been criticized by many conservationists who call the idea"ecologically and scientifically flawed."
"Following the import of the 12 cheetahs in February, the plan is to translocate a further 12 annually for the next eight to 10 years," said a statement issued by the Indian government the last week of January. In an opinion piece published in Nature Ecology and Evolution in October, a group of wildlife scientists from India, South Africa and other countries said that India's current Action Plan for Introduction of Cheetah in India -- a plan prepared by CIP experts -- was"ecologically unsound, costly and may serve as a distraction rather than help global cheetah and other science-based conservation efforts.
"Average cheetah density in the best of the habitats in Africa is 1 per 100 square kilometers. Based on an extrapolation using the density data from Africa, science informs us that seven to eight cheetahs, to a maximum of 10 cheetahs can reside within the 748-square-kilometer KNP," Chellam said. "The range quality is also important for maintaining a viable cheetah population, with a need for open or semi-open habitat, with sufficient, suitable wild prey, free from anthropogenic pressure and free-ranging dogs," Mills told VOA.
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