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On Wednesday morning, another cheetah was discovered deceased in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP), bringing the total number of cheetah deaths at KNP to nine.
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The transferred female cheetah from Namibia may have passed away of “septicemia due to skin abrasion,” according to an unnamed forest official. This will be confirmed by the post-mortem.
On Wednesday morning, one of the female cheetahs named Dhatri (Tiblisi) was found dead in the wild.A post-mortem is being conducted to determine the cause of death,” said Aseem Shrivastava, the chief wildlife warden for the state of Maharashtra.
Two female cheetahs, Dhatri and Nirva, lived in the open, while 14 cheetahs, including a cub, reside in the enclosure.
Shrivastava added, “All 14 cheetahs (07 males, 06 females, and 1 female cub) kept in bomas at KNP are well, and their health is regularly monitored by a team of Kuno wildlife veterinarians and Namibian experts.”
After two cheetahs, Tejas and Suraj, died of an illness recently, forest officials tried to catch them for clinical tests. Three cheetahs with skin wounds near the radio collar were found to be infected.
Nirva, another cheetah, is thought to have been lost because the radio collar stopped working. To find her, elephants are being used.
After the recent deaths of Tejas and Suraj, two African cheetahs at KNP, which were thought to have died from septicemia caused by their radio collars, questions were raised about how the cheetahs were being watched at KNP in Sheopur district. As a result, wildlife chief warden Jasbir Singh Chauhan was moved last month after a steering committee meeting in Delhi in July
In a statement to the Rajya Sabha last month, the Union environment ministry denied that there had been any mistakes. It also said that the deaths of cheetahs were caused by natural causes and that there was “no scientific evidence” that radio collars caused infections that led to their deaths.
In May, the Supreme Court was worried about the death of cheetahs and urged the Centre to think about giving them more space in other states.
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