Cheetah reintroduction in India: Twitter celebrates long-awaited return of the world's fastest land animal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of his birthday on September 17, will release cheetahs in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The cheetahs were declared extinct from India in 1952.

PM Modi at around 10:45 am on Saturday, will release cheetahs in Kuno National Park and soon after that, at around 12 noon, he will participate in Self Help Group (SHG) Sammelan with women SHG members/community resource persons at Karahal, Sheopur. India's much-awaited Cheetah reintroduction programme has got the netizens excited and #CheetahIsBack has already started trending on Twitter.

The release of wild cheetahs in Kuno National Park is part of the government's efforts to revitalise and diversify India's wildlife and its habitat.


The cheetahs that would be released are from Namibia and have been brought under an MoU signed earlier this year. The introduction of cheetahs in India is being done under Project Cheetah, which is the world's first intercontinental large wild carnivore translocation project.

Cheetahs will help in the restoration of open forest and grassland ecosystems in India. This will help conserve biodiversity and enhance the ecosystem services like water security, carbon sequestration and soil moisture conservation, benefiting society at large.

Earlier,the High Commission of India in Namibia shared a special post on its Twitter handle to mark the occasion. Here’s the post:



Moreover, the official Twitter handles of Press Information Bureau (PIB) and All India Radio (AIR)), have also shared posts to celebrate the Cheetah reintroduction in India.





Here're some other tweets: