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NEW DELHI: Miffed for being excluded from the nine-member Cheetah Task Force, which was reconstituted not too long ago, Wildlife Institute of India Dean and scientist Dr Yadvendradev Jhala, who performed a number one function in bringing eight cheetahs from Namibia to the Madhya Pradesh Kuno National Park final month, has proceeded on go away.
WII sources mentioned that Jhala, who was heading a small crew of researchers from his institute in observing the cheetahs, moreover accumulating information and finding out the felines’ adaptability and behavior of their respective quarantine bomas or enclosures at KNP, could return to rejoin the on-going work earlier than the animals are launched into bigger enclosures on or round October 17.
“At the moment there is complete uncertainty and we hope he returns to resume the observation of the cheetahs,” a WII supply mentioned. Jhala left KNP this morning after studying that his title was not included within the CTF which, within the days and weeks to return, will carry out numerous essential technical duties. He will, nonetheless, participate in a Tiger Project assembly in Dehradun.
The CTF’s mandate contains monitoring the cheetahs whereas in quarantine to their launch into the following bigger enclosures to their remaining transfer into KNP’s wilds. Jhala’s exclusion from the CTF may additionally probably hit the federal government’s transfer to introduce 12 extra cheetahs (from South Africa) to KNP. “Jhala’s non-inclusion in the CTF is a matter between the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the government,” a senior Madhya Pradesh forest official mentioned. Admitting that Jhala is on go away, an NTCA supply requested, “How can a person monitor his own work? Is this possible?”
Since his appointment on the primary CTF in 2009, Jhala has performed a number one function within the return of cheetahs to India. In November 2021, Jhala led a broad-based crew to draft a complete 310-page ‘Action Plan for Introduction of Cheetah in India (With Emphasis on the First Release Site — Kuno National Park’.
Along with the then Wildlife Trust of India chairman Dr M Okay Ranjitsinh, Jhala authored ‘Assessing the Potential for Reintroducing the Cheetah in India’ in 2010. Instead of Jhala, the NTCA selected to nominate WII Co-Principal Investigator and Scientist Dr Vishnupriya Kolipakam.
Setback to carry extra cheetahs?
Jhala’s exclusion from the CTF may additionally probably hit the federal government’s transfer to introduce 12 extra cheetahs (from South Africa) to KNP.
NEW DELHI: Miffed for being excluded from the nine-member Cheetah Task Force, which was reconstituted not too long ago, Wildlife Institute of India Dean and scientist Dr Yadvendradev Jhala, who performed a number one function in bringing eight cheetahs from Namibia to the Madhya Pradesh Kuno National Park final month, has proceeded on go away.
WII sources mentioned that Jhala, who was heading a small crew of researchers from his institute in observing the cheetahs, moreover accumulating information and finding out the felines’ adaptability and behavior of their respective quarantine bomas or enclosures at KNP, could return to rejoin the on-going work earlier than the animals are launched into bigger enclosures on or round October 17.
“At the moment there is complete uncertainty and we hope he returns to resume the observation of the cheetahs,” a WII supply mentioned. Jhala left KNP this morning after studying that his title was not included within the CTF which, within the days and weeks to return, will carry out numerous essential technical duties. He will, nonetheless, participate in a Tiger Project assembly in Dehradun.
The CTF’s mandate contains monitoring the cheetahs whereas in quarantine to their launch into the following bigger enclosures to their remaining transfer into KNP’s wilds. Jhala’s exclusion from the CTF may additionally probably hit the federal government’s transfer to introduce 12 extra cheetahs (from South Africa) to KNP. “Jhala’s non-inclusion in the CTF is a matter between the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the government,” a senior Madhya Pradesh forest official mentioned. Admitting that Jhala is on go away, an NTCA supply requested, “How can a person monitor his own work? Is this possible?”
Since his appointment on the primary CTF in 2009, Jhala has performed a number one function within the return of cheetahs to India. In November 2021, Jhala led a broad-based crew to draft a complete 310-page ‘Action Plan for Introduction of Cheetah in India (With Emphasis on the First Release Site — Kuno National Park’.
Along with the then Wildlife Trust of India chairman Dr M Okay Ranjitsinh, Jhala authored ‘Assessing the Potential for Reintroducing the Cheetah in India’ in 2010. Instead of Jhala, the NTCA selected to nominate WII Co-Principal Investigator and Scientist Dr Vishnupriya Kolipakam.
Setback to carry extra cheetahs?
Jhala’s exclusion from the CTF may additionally probably hit the federal government’s transfer to introduce 12 extra cheetahs (from South Africa) to KNP.
