Strayed Cheetah from Kuno National Park rescued near Jhansi, second time in a month

Forest officials rescued a male cheetah that strayed out of the conservation area of Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh last week. The official said that they rescued Cheetah when it was about the cross to nearby forest to Jhansi, in Uttar Pradesh.

As per reports, this is the second time in a month when the Cheetah named Oban has been tranquilised and brought back to the national park after it strayed out of the park.

After being tranquilised at Karera forest in Shivpuri district, cheetah Oban, now renamed as Pavan, was released in Palpur forest of the Kuno National Park at around 9.30 pm on Saturday, KNP's Divisional Forest Officer Prakash Kumar Verma told PTI.


The cheetah was moving towards Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh when it was rescued. The spotted cat was around 150 km away from the KNP at that time, the official said.

On April 7, the feline, which has strayed out of the KNP multiple times, was rescued from Bairad area in Shivpuri after being tranquilised and brought back to the park, officials said.

Eight Namibian cheetahs, comprising five females and three males, were brought to the national park on September 17, 2022 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

One of them, Sasha, died of a kidney ailment on March 27. Another cheetah, named Siyaya, recently gave birth to four cubs.

On February 18 this year, 12 cheetahs, comprising seven males and five females, were also brought to the KNP from South Africa.

The last cheetah died in India in Koriya district in present-day Chhattisgarh in 1947, and the species was declared extinct from the country in 1952.

(Inputs from PTI)