kuno wildlife sanctuary

India's Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav highlighted the nation's "coexistence-based management" approach to tackle human-wildlife conflict amidst growing economies. He emphasized that conservation efforts extend beyond mere numbers, focusing on habitat expansion, connectivity, and multi-species protection, including tigers, lions, leopards, snow leopards, and cheetahs, with the International Big Cat Alliance poised to foster cross-border cooperation.

NTCA greenlights translocation; arrivals expected in July-Aug

A significant milestone in India's cheetah reintroduction has been achieved with the first wild birth of cubs to an India-born female at Kuno National Park. This marks a crucial step towards establishing a self-sustaining cheetah population, demonstrating successful adaptation and reproduction in the wild. Officials are now focused on ensuring the survival of these vulnerable newborns.

However, findings of a recent survey in Kuno sanctuary by Wildlife Institute of India (WII), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) - India and the state forest department have answers to Nathwani's worries.

Translocation of Gir lions will bring the two big cats into conflict

Rajasthan seems to be losing its tigers to Madhya Pradesh. The movement of tigers from Ranthambore national park in Rajasthan to Kuno-Palpur wildlife sanctuary has established the natural corridor between the two sanctuaries is functional.

In the recent past in February 2011, a male tiger T-38 from Ranthambore found a new home at Kuno-Palpur sanctuary in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh.

The Madhya Pradesh forest department is likely to notify kuno wildlife sanctuary as a national park — the last condition imposed by a Supreme Court-appointed committee for translocation of Asiatic lions from Gir.

With a huge rise in endangered blackbuck population in Madhya Pradesh, the state forest department wants to translocate 1000 Indian antelopes to Palpur kuno wildlife sanctuary, where its chief predator the Cheetah is proposed to be re-introduced in India.

Experts from Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have initiated a detailed survey of kuno wildlife sanctuary for implementation of the Cheetah project. The study would last in a month or may take more time, say sources.

The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory authority under the Centre, seems to support the NGOs' argument.

The Madhya Pradesh department has dispatched an emergency medical response team to kuno wildlife sanctuary in Sheopur district after a female cheetah was diagnosed with a serious medical condition, sources told TOI.