SC quashes big-cat plan to bring cheetahs from Namibia

May 08, 2012 16:13

Just in: The Supreme Court has quashed the proposal to bring in cheetahs from Namibia saying it will not help in conversation. The case for taking some lions from Gujarat - home to the last remaining wild population of the grassland big cat -- to Palpur-Kuno in Madhya Pradesh has been hanging fire in the apex court for seven years now. The issue has got muddled further with the Union government deciding to import the cheetah from Namibia and attempt to make the same forest patch a home to the animal that went extinct in India in 1947.

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