Sasha, one of the 8 cheetahs translocated from Namibia in September last year and released in Kuno national park , died on March 27. After almost two months’ of illness, the five year old female cheetah died in the morning. Addditional chief secretary forest department JS Kansotia confirmed this. Sasha was diagnosed with hepatorenal, a kidney and liver-related infection, in the last week of January, four months after she was brought to Kuno in September 2022. Sasha was brought up in captivity in Namibia after she was picked up in malnourished condition in a farm field there . Knowing her health conditions, Indian officials had even objected to her translocation as they apprehended that she might not last in the wild. Renal Complications On January 23 , the female cheetah had showed signs of fatigue and weakness, after which she was tranquilised and shifted to the quarantine enclosure for treatment. “Two days after medicines had been injected intravenously, the cheetah was showin
Female cheetah and cubs.Even this picture released by India's Press Information Bureaue says something. Eversince cheetah introduction in Kuno national park , officials are dreaming for this day. But a section of these officials also believe that these cats continue to live under stress and there is an uncertainty over breeding. They need to meet and mate. But how ? Will they be able to do so as they are going to follow another months of stress when they are released in open. Now that the Namibian cheetahs are ready for release in the open forest from the closed confines of the present 5 square km fenced housing, many in the cheetah monitoring team are concerned over the future of their reproduction- an important land mark in cheetah conservation and the ultimate aim of the introduction of the foreign species of the cat in India. From Namibia to India , to small enclosure in Kuno to the five sq km boma, they will again be under stress when released in the open jungle