Twelve cheetahs, including five female cheetahs, were flown from South Africa to India on Saturday, marking a significant step forward in the country's ambitious Cheetah reintroduction programme. The video of their arrival in special enclosures has gone viral, generating a lot of excitement among animal lovers and conservationists. The cheetahs will be kept in quarantine for a month, during which time they will be acclimatized to their new surroundings. According to a Madhya Pradesh government official, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will release the cheetahs into their quarantine enclosures in the Kuno National Park, which is spread over 750 km in the state's Chambal region. This is not the first time that India has imported cheetahs for reintroduction. In fact, last year, the government brought in eight cheetahs from Namibia as part of the same programme. On Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 72nd birthday on September 17 last year, he released the first batch of
