With those numbers, the area would be large enough for only 7-8 cheetahs, not the dozens that are planned. The amount of space set aside for India's cheetahs is 750 sq km. Gopalaswamy noted a paper he published in the journal Ecography in 2020 that found the density of a cheetah population, or the number of cheetahs per the amount of space, to be one per 100 sq km. India has areas of grassland and forest habitat, which are appropriate for this species," Laurie Marker, founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, which has helped coordinate the reintroduction, told The Washington Post. "To save cheetahs from extinction, we need to create permanent places for them on Earth. The vast majority of the remaining cheetahs are in Africa, while a small amount of the critically endangered Asiatic cheetahs, the same subspecies that used to prowl India, remain in Iran.
The big cats now occupy just 9% of their historical range. "It is our moral and ethical responsibility to bring them back."Ĭheetah populations worldwide are also on the decline, with the total number in the wild estimated to be about 6,500, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Yadav, secretary of India's National Tiger Conservation Authority, said, according to The New York Times. "It is the only large mammal that India has lost," S.P.
They were declared extinct in the country in 1952 as a result of hunting and habitat loss. Cheetahs, the world's fastest land animal, were once widespread in India.
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