Environment · 19 Sep 2026

Project Cheetah

Which of the following statements regarding Project Cheetah is correct?

AProject Cheetah was launched in 1972 alongside the enactment of the Wild Life (Protection) Act.
BThe Asiatic cheetah was officially declared extinct in India in 1952, primarily due to over-hunting, prey depletion and habitat loss.
CKuno National Park, where the reintroduced cheetahs are housed, is administered solely by the Madhya Pradesh State Forest Department, independent of any central authority.
DAll cheetahs translocated to India under the project were sourced exclusively from Namibia.
This question is based on: These two cheetahs aren't related but at Kuno, they have become inseparable
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Why in news

Two unrelated male cheetahs at Kuno - one India-born, one translocated from Botswana - formed a rare social coalition, marking Project Cheetah's shift from survival-focused management to monitoring self-organising behaviour four years after its 2022 launch.

Why for UPSC

Tests precise factual grounding on Project Cheetah's timeline, administrative structure and multi-source translocation design - details often blurred by headline-level familiarity with the scheme.

Prelims summary

The Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India in 1952. Project Cheetah, launched in 2022, deliberately sources cheetahs from multiple African countries (Namibia, South Africa, Botswana) to build a genetically diverse metapopulation at Kuno National Park, administered under NTCA and MoEFCC oversight.

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