Six cheetahs in KNP had their radio collars removed for a health checkup, according to forest officials

According to authorities, six cheetahs in the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh had their radio collars taken off for a “health examination” by vets from the KNP and specialists from Namibia and South Africa.

Notably, since March of this year, three pups and five adult cheetahs have passed away in the KNP in the Sheopur area.

Six male and five female cheetahs are presently housed within the boma, according to an official. According to the official, “So far, KNP veterinarians and experts from Namibia and South Africa have removed the radio collars of six cheetahs on the grounds of health examination.”

The official named the cheetahs without radio collars as Gourav, Shourya, Pavan, Pavak, Asha, and Dheera, adding that “the condition of all these cheetahs is healthy.”

Six cheetahs’ radio collars had been taken off, according to a statement made in an official statement on Saturday, “for the purpose of health examination by the veterinary team of Kuno along with experts from Namibia and South Africa.”

Aseem Shrivastava, the chief wildlife warden for Madhya Pradesh, did not go into detail about why the felines’ health was being examined. Twenty radio-collared animals were brought from Namibia and South Africa to the KNP as part of Project Cheetah, and four cubs were subsequently delivered to Namibian cheetah “Jwala.” Eight of these 24 cats, including three cubs, have passed away.

According to the environment ministry, on July 16 media reports linking the deaths of 20 adult cheetahs imported from Namibia and South Africa to things like radio collars were based on “speculation and hearsay without scientific evidence” and that five of the 20 adult cheetahs died of natural causes.

The development of a Cheetah Research Center with facilities for rescue, rehabilitation, capacity building, and interpretation is only one of the actions the ministry claimed had been planned to help the cheetah initiative.

On July 20, the Supreme Court ruled that the deaths of eight cheetahs in the KNP in less than a year don’t paint a “good picture” and urged the Center to look into the idea of moving the animals to other sanctuaries rather than making it a matter of pride.