Mabel Banfield-Nwachi “Wild cheetahs to return to India for first time since 1952” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/wild-cheetahs-to-return-to-india-for-first-time-since-1952
印度では1952年にチーター*1の絶滅が宣言された。インド政府はアフリカのナミビア*2からチーターを再導入することを決め、８月からマディヤ・プラデーシュ州のクノ国立公園*3に放たれることになる。
Bhupender Yadav環境長官曰く、
Happy to share that India has signed a historic MoU with Namibia to promote Wildlife Conservation and Sustainable Biodiversity Utilization. The MoU seeks to promote conservation and restoration of cheetah in their former range from which the species went extinct. pic.twitter.com/MNVyw8S2eQ
— Bhupender Yadav (@byadavbjp) 2022年7月20日
The MoU aims to facilitate cheetah conservation in both countries by way of exchange of expertise, sharing of good practices in the field of wildlife conservation, use of technology, sustainable management of biodiversity.
— Bhupender Yadav (@byadavbjp) 2022年7月20日
Under the MoU, India will share her expertise in smart patrolling, population estimation, surveillance and monitoring. India will also support Namibian candidates for training in wildlife management course at Wildlife Institute of India.
— Bhupender Yadav (@byadavbjp) 2022年7月20日
Cheetah reintroduction in India has a larger goal of re-establishing ecological function in Indian grasslands that was lost due to extinction of Asiatic cheetah. This is in conformity with IUCN guidelines on conservation translocations.
— Bhupender Yadav (@byadavbjp) 2022年7月20日
Cheetah as a flagship specie will lead to greater focus on the status of dry-open forest/savanna ecosystems and the need to restore and manage them. Cheetah reintroduction would also greatly enhance local community livelihoods through eco-tourism prospects in the long term.
— Bhupender Yadav (@byadavbjp) 2022年7月20日
Completing 75 glorious years of Independence with restoring the fastest terrestrial flagship species, the cheetah, in India, will rekindle the ecological dynamics of the landscape.
— Bhupender Yadav (@byadavbjp) 2022年7月20日
そもそも印度にチーターがいたことも知らなかった。さらに、野生のチーターは現在イランで生き残っている；
The Asiatic cheetah, which could once be found in regions stretching from the Arabian peninsula to Afghanistan, is an endangered species and now only exists in Iran. It is estimated that only 12 cats are still alive.
Efforts to reintroduce the cats to India from Iran in the 1970s failed following the Iranian revolution.
*1:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2020/04/06/234254
*2:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20180212/1518440931 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2019/10/11/012655 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2019/10/30/140540
*3:https://www.kunonationalpark.org/ See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuno_National_Park
