Namibian cheetah, Jwala, has given birth to four cubs at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. This comes after Namibian cheetah, Aasha, gave birth to her cubs a few weeks ago. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday shared a new video of the four cubs on social media site X.
As frontline wildlife warriors managed to get closer to Jwala, they found she had given birth to four, not three, cubs. This has increased our joy several times over, he tweeted.
Wildlife wonders!
On Tuesday, he said that the cheetah had given birth to three cubs.
"Kuno’s new cubs! A Namibian Cheetah named Jwala has given birth to three cubs. This comes just weeks after Namibian Cheetah Aasha gave birth to her cubs. Congratulations to all wildlife frontline warriors and wildlife lovers across the country. May Bharat’s wildlife thrive," Yadav tweeted.
Earlier, officials at the Kuno National Park informed on January 3 that
Namibian cheetah Aasha had given birth to three cubs.
"Purrs in the wild! Thrilled to share that Kuno National Park has welcomed three new members. The cubs have been born to Namibian Cheetah Aasha. This is a roaring success for Project Cheetah, envisioned by PM Shri @narendramodi ji to restore ecological balance. My big congrats to all experts involved in the project, the Kuno wildlife officials, and wildlife enthusiasts across India," Yadav had posted on X alongside a video of the newborn cubs.
In March last year, a
cheetah named Siyaya had given birth to four cubs. However, only one of them survived.
In September 2022, the first batch of eight cheetahs arrived in India, while the second batch of 12 cheetahs was flown in from South Africa in February last year.
The cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952. As part of the
Cheetah project of the central government, four cheetahs were released into the wild in December last year. However, two of them were later on shifted to bomas (enclosures).
(Edited by : Sudarsanan Mani)
First Published: Jan 23, 2024 11:10 AM IST
