IN PICS | PM Modi releases eight cheetahs from Namibia in Kuno National Park on his birthday

A cheetah lies inside a transport cage at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, on September 16, 2022.

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The aircraft carrying the cheetahs for ten hours landed at the Gwalior airbase at 7.47 am, and the felines were then flown in two Air Force helicopters to Palpur near the Kuno National Park.

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Before their flight from Namibia, the cheetahs, the fastest land animals in the world, were treated with a tranquilizer that lasts for three to five days.

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The animals were flown to the Kuno National Park in Sheopur district, 165 km away from Gwalior. The journey took about 20-25 minutes.

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A dais was set up in the Park under which special cages carrying cheetahs were kept and PM Modi, who turned 72 today, released three of them in an enclosure by operating a lever.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and others after releasing cheetahs inside a special enclosure of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, on September 17, 2022.

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IN PICS | PM Modi releases eight cheetahs from Namibia in Kuno National Park on his birthday

Eight cheetahs - five females and three males - from Namibia landed in Gwalior today as part of the programme to reintroduce the feline in India seven decades after it was declared extinct in the country.

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A cheetah lies inside a transport cage at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, on September 16, 2022.

A cheetah lies inside a transport cage at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, on September 16, 2022.

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The aircraft carrying the cheetahs for ten hours landed at the Gwalior airbase at 7.47 am, and the felines were then flown in two Air Force helicopters to Palpur near the Kuno National Park.

The aircraft carrying the cheetahs for ten hours landed at the Gwalior airbase at 7.47 am, and the felines were then flown in two Air Force helicopters to Palpur near the Kuno National Park.

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Before their flight from Namibia, the cheetahs, the fastest land animals in the world, were treated with a tranquilizer that lasts for three to five days.

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The animals were flown to the Kuno National Park in Sheopur district, 165 km away from Gwalior. The journey took about 20-25 minutes.

The animals were flown to the Kuno National Park in Sheopur district, 165 km away from Gwalior. The journey took about 20-25 minutes.

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A dais was set up in the Park under which special cages carrying cheetahs were kept and PM Modi, who turned 72 today, released three of them in an enclosure by operating a lever.

A dais was set up in the Park under which special cages carrying cheetahs were kept and PM Modi, who turned 72 today, released three of them in an enclosure by operating a lever.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and others after releasing cheetahs inside a special enclosure of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, on September 17, 2022.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and others after releasing cheetahs inside a special enclosure of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, on September 17, 2022.

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