Three days after demise of eighth cheetah at Kuno National Park, MP govt shunts out prime forest official

By Express News Service

BHOPAL: In what’s being seen as a fallout of the deaths of 5 African cheetahs and three cubs at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) in lower than 4 months, the state authorities shunted out the principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF-Wildlife) on Monday.

The growth, which got here three days after the newest demise of semi-adult cheetah Suraj within the KNP’s open jungles, noticed the 1987 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer JS Chauhan being transferred from the submit of PCCF-Wildlife on the state forest directorate to the submit of PCCF-Production submit on the directorate.

The current PCCF-Production Asim Srivastava (a 1988 batch IFS officer) would be the new PCCF-Wildlife on the state forest headquarters in Bhopal.

It was Chauhan who had reportedly written to the NTCA a number of weeks again, calling for some cheetahs from the KNP to be shifted to an alternate website because it wasn’t able to dealing with so many.

The official was shunted out just some hours after the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) said that as per preliminary evaluation of autopsy reviews and analysis of mortality occasions, the deaths of the 5 grownup cheetahs during the last 4 months occurred as a consequence of pure causes and never as a consequence of different causes akin to poaching, poisoning, highway hits, electrocution or radio collar associated points.

The NTCA additionally said that consultations with worldwide cheetah consultants/veterinary medical doctors from South Africa and Namibia are being performed regularly to analyze the cheetah deaths.

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Reacting to the NTCA assertion, Congress MP and the social gathering’s nationwide basic secretary in-charge (communications) Jairam Ramesh stated, “Predictably the PM must have intervened and got the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to issue this statement attributing all eight cheetah deaths so far at Kuno to ‘natural’ causes. The statement is clearly a political one, intended to whitewash management failures and mocks conservation science. There appears to be enough evidence to expose the NTCA statement.”

As many as 5 grownup Namibian and South African cheetahs and three cheetah cubs (4 cubs had been born in March final week) have died on the KNP in lower than 4 months, with the final one Suraj (a South African grownup male) dying on July 14 within the open jungles of the nationwide park in MP’s Sheopur district.

As a part of the Narendra Modi authorities’s bold venture to reintroduce cheetahs in Indian forests — seven a long time after the quickest transferring animal on earth grew to become extinct within the Indian wild — eight cheetahs had been translocated from Namibia to MP’s KNP on PM Modi’s 72nd birthday (September 17, 2022).

Five months later, 12 extra African cheetahs, this time from South Africa, had been translocated to the KNP in February 2023, taking the entire variety of African cheetahs there to twenty.

The deaths of 5 adults and three cubs, nevertheless, has meant that the KNP is left now with simply 15 adults (11 of them in open jungles and 4 in enclosures) and one cub.

BHOPAL: In what’s being seen as a fallout of the deaths of 5 African cheetahs and three cubs at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP) in lower than 4 months, the state authorities shunted out the principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF-Wildlife) on Monday.

The growth, which got here three days after the newest demise of semi-adult cheetah Suraj within the KNP’s open jungles, noticed the 1987 batch Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer JS Chauhan being transferred from the submit of PCCF-Wildlife on the state forest directorate to the submit of PCCF-Production submit on the directorate.

The current PCCF-Production Asim Srivastava (a 1988 batch IFS officer) would be the new PCCF-Wildlife on the state forest headquarters in Bhopal.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

It was Chauhan who had reportedly written to the NTCA a number of weeks again, calling for some cheetahs from the KNP to be shifted to an alternate website because it wasn’t able to dealing with so many.

The official was shunted out just some hours after the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) said that as per preliminary evaluation of autopsy reviews and analysis of mortality occasions, the deaths of the 5 grownup cheetahs during the last 4 months occurred as a consequence of pure causes and never as a consequence of different causes akin to poaching, poisoning, highway hits, electrocution or radio collar associated points.

The NTCA additionally said that consultations with worldwide cheetah consultants/veterinary medical doctors from South Africa and Namibia are being performed regularly to analyze the cheetah deaths.

ALSO READ | Cheetahs to stay in Kuno, will not be relocated: Union minister Bhupender Yadav

Reacting to the NTCA assertion, Congress MP and the social gathering’s nationwide basic secretary in-charge (communications) Jairam Ramesh stated, “Predictably the PM must have intervened and got the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to issue this statement attributing all eight cheetah deaths so far at Kuno to ‘natural’ causes. The statement is clearly a political one, intended to whitewash management failures and mocks conservation science. There appears to be enough evidence to expose the NTCA statement.”

As many as 5 grownup Namibian and South African cheetahs and three cheetah cubs (4 cubs had been born in March final week) have died on the KNP in lower than 4 months, with the final one Suraj (a South African grownup male) dying on July 14 within the open jungles of the nationwide park in MP’s Sheopur district.

As a part of the Narendra Modi authorities’s bold venture to reintroduce cheetahs in Indian forests — seven a long time after the quickest transferring animal on earth grew to become extinct within the Indian wild — eight cheetahs had been translocated from Namibia to MP’s KNP on PM Modi’s 72nd birthday (September 17, 2022).

Five months later, 12 extra African cheetahs, this time from South Africa, had been translocated to the KNP in February 2023, taking the entire variety of African cheetahs there to twenty.

The deaths of 5 adults and three cubs, nevertheless, has meant that the KNP is left now with simply 15 adults (11 of them in open jungles and 4 in enclosures) and one cub.