Customs dept gave speedy clearances to plane carrying Namibian cheetahs after change in landing destination: Official
Even as the landing destination of the special plane carrying eight cheetahs from Namibia was changed to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh from Jaipur in Rajasthan, the Customs department fast-tracked the clearances so that these animals reach the Kuno National Park as per schedule last week, an official said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 17 released three of these eight cheetahs brought from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at the KNP in MP’s Sheopur district as part of a project to revive the population of the animal which became extinct in India in 1952.
The transcontinental journey of more than 8,000 km of the cheetahs – five female and three male and aged between 30 to 66 months – from Namibia had begun on Friday night.
