Kuno’s India-Born Cheetah Gives Birth To 4 Cubs, Population Reaches 56
KGP12 had been conceived in the wild in the Kuno National Park and brought to the Soft Release Boma (SRB), a large enclosure in semi-wild condition, for delivery, a senior forest officer said.
Bhopal: KGP12, an India-born female cheetah fathered by the South African lineage at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, gave birth to four cubs on Friday
With this, India’s cheetah population was boosted to 56, including 36 cubs born on Indian soil.
“This is the second litter of KGP12. She lost all her four cubs born in her first litter in April this year”, Uttam Kumar Sharma, Director of the Cheetah Project, told this newspaper.
KGP12 was born in the first litter of translocated South African female cheetah Gamini.
She was fathered by a translocated South African male cheetah, Pawak.
While Gamini is currently in the wild in the Kuno National Park, Pawak along with his brother and coalition partner Prabhash have been shifted to the Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary in Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh a year and half ago to join translocated South African female cheetah Dheera.
KGP12 had been conceived in the wild in the Kuno National Park and brought to the Soft Release Boma (SRB), a large enclosure in semi-wild condition, for delivery, a senior forest officer said.
Union minister for forest, environment and climate change Bhupender Yadav first broke the news about the new guests in Kuno in a post on X.
“A truly historic and joyous moment for Project Cheetah! A day after India’s cheetah project completed four years, KGP12, an Indian-born female cheetah, gave birth to four cubs in Kuno. Four years, four new lives- a beautiful symbol of hope, resilience and the growing success of cheetah conservation in India”, he said.
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav also hailed the development, describing it a ‘historic milestone for cheetah project’.
