Four cheers at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno park; cheetah Neerva gives birth to cub quartet

Cheetah Neerva has given birth to four cubs at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on Monday and hailed their arrival as a boost to the project that restored a species which vanished from India decades ago.

Prior to this, 17 cheetah cubs had been born at the KNP, where the fastest land animal on Earth was translocated from Namibia more than two years ago. With 12 of those cubs surviving, the count of cheetahs was last reported to be 24. With the birth of four more cubs, their count has gone up to 16.”Today the Cheetah Project has achieved great success.

In Kuno National Park of our – Cheetah State Madhya Pradesh – the female cheetah Neerva has given birth to four cubs, which is a great achievement not only for the state but also for the country,” Yadav stated in a post on X in the evening.

He lauded forest department personnel involved in the Cheetah Project for their efforts in making the programme a success.In the afternoon, the forest department had informed about the birth of cheetah cubs at the KNP without specifying their exact number.”Good news from Kuno. Female cheetah Neerva has given birth to cubs in Kuno National Park located in Sheopur district,” the MP forest department said in a post on X.Last month, Chief Minister Yadav had shared information that a female cheetah at the park was pregnant and was expected to deliver cubs soon.