India approves plans to reintroduce cheetah

30 July 2010, 2:40 pm

Eighteen cheetahs to be imported from Iran, Namibia and South Africa more than 60 years after the species was hunted to extinction The cheetah is to return to India, more than 60 years after the last three were shot dead by hunters on the subcontinent. Indian minister for the environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh, has picked three sites for the reintroduction of the animal within a year ...... Read More »

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