Cheetahs arrive in India on PM Modi's birthday...1st PICs

On a special Boeing 717 cargo trip, the cheetahs traveled from Namibia to India

From Gwalior, a helicopter departs for Kuno National Park with cheetahs that were brought in from Namibia

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the animals into a 10 km-long enclosure on his 72nd birthday

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There will also be the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and wildlife specialists

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Seven decades after being deemed extinct in the nation in 1952, cheetahs are being airlifted from southern Africa to India for their reintroduction

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When the cheetahs are put into the enclosures, they will be given food because they went without during the trip, an official stated

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Due to overhunting and dwindling grasslands, the cheetah's native habitat, it was entirely exterminated in India

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The cheetah was declared extinct in 1952 after the last one was slain in Chhattisgarh's Koriya district in 1947

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Each of the seven Cheetahs—five females and three males—will receive a satellite collar when they are between the ages of two and five and a half

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This is truly a remarkable action by the prime minister

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