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MP News: Male cheetah Pawan and female cheetah Veera, who have been living in the open forest of Kuno National Park in Sheopur for the last three and a half months, have now crossed the boundary of the park and gone into the forest outside. Not only this, the female cheetah Veera has been in the Pahargarh forest in the Sheopur-Morena border area for 2 days. At the same time, male cheetah Pawan is roaming in the forest of Agra area in the border of Sheopur district. However, Kuno’s trekking teams are engaged behind both the cheetahs and are engaged in surveillance day and night, but the concerns of the Kuno management have also increased due to them going out of the limits of the park, because even before this many times the cheetahs have crossed the boundaries of Kuno. Have crossed.
Sources in Kuno National Park said, the male cheetah Pawan had left Kuno 5 days ago on Sunday and reached the forest of Pahargarh in Morena district, after this on last Tuesday the female cheetah Veera also came out and reached the forest of Morena district. However, Pawan has returned to the border of Sheopur district and on Wednesday late evening, his location was found in the forest of Agra area. Whereas, the female Veera was traced in the forest of Pahargarh till Wednesday evening.
DFO Thirukural R of Kuno National Park told Aajtak over phone call that both the cheetahs are outside the limits of Kuno Park, but one of them is in the limits of Sheopur district, while the other cheetah is in Pahargarh forest in the limits of Morena district. . Our team is continuously monitoring and at present there is no need to tranquilize the cheetahs.
Let us tell you here that at present only 2 leopards are in the open forest in Kuno National Park. These are the male cheetah Pawan (Namibian name Oban) and the female cheetah Wira (South African name Tswalu subadult female). They were released on 19 December 2023 in Pipalbawdi tourist zone of Agra area of Kuno. Since then he is out.
It is known that the leopards brought to Kuno National Park are crossing the boundaries of the national park from the open forest and reaching other districts. Last year, in March-April, male cheetah Pawan reached the Lalitpur border of UP, while in December, male cheetah Agni crossed the border of MP-Rajasthan and reached Baran district. Now this pair of leopards has reached Morena district.
Till now these leopards have crossed the boundary of Kuno Park.
-Pavan, the male cheetah brought from Namibia, came out of the boundaries of Kuno thrice in the month of March-April of the year 2023. In which once in Agra area of Vijaypur of the district, second time in Bairad area of Shivpuri district and third time it crossed Madhav National Park of Shivpuri and reached the UP border.
Asha, a female cheetah brought from Namibia, came out of the limits of Kuno in May 2023 and reached the general forest area of the district. Agni, a male cheetah from South Africa, came out of Kuno in December 2023 and reached Baran district of Rajasthan.
Take a look at the fact file
- There are currently 27 total cheetahs in Kuno National Park.
- There are 13 adult cheetahs and 14 cubs.
- There are 11 adult leopards in the enclosures of the park.
- There are only two adult cheetahs in the open forest.
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