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India Reintroduces Cheetahs to Kuno After 70-Year Extinction

8/11/2026

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India reintroduced the cheetah to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on 17 September 2022.
The Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952 after the last three were shot in 1947.
It remains the only Indian animal known to have become extinct due to unnatural causes.
In 1955 Andhra Pradesh’s former State Wildlife Board suggested experimentally reintroducing cheetahs in at least two districts.

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India reintroduced the cheetah to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on 17 September 2022.
The Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952 after the last three were shot in 1947.
It remains the only Indian animal known to have become extinct due to unnatural causes.
In 1955 Andhra Pradesh’s former State Wildlife Board suggested experimentally reintroducing cheetahs in at least two districts.