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PM Modi was speaking after releasing two of the eight cheetahs flown in from Namibia into special enclosures in the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh

Seven decades after cheetahs died out in India, they're back. Eight big cats from Namibia made the long trek Saturday in a chartered cargo flight to the northern Indian city of Gwalior, part of an ambitious and hotly contested plan to reintroduce cheetahs to the South Asian country. Then they…

Eight cheetahs will be flown to Palpur village in Sheopur district in two helicopters, including a Chinook

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will celebrate his birthday by releasing Namibian cheetahs into the wild in central India to burnish his conservationist credentials over an animal made extinct by colonial hunters and shrinking grasslands.

The cheetahs that would be released are from Namibia and have been brought under an MoU signed earlier this year.

The introduction of cheetah in India is being done under Project Cheetah, which is the world's first inter-continental large wild carnivore translocation project

Eight cheetahs, five female and three male, will be brought to Jaipur in Rajasthan on September 17

According to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, the five female cheetahs are aged between two years and five years and the male cheetahs are aged between 4.5 years and 5.5 years

Education on wildlife, including cheetah, planned for 10,000 school students, says Forest Minister