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description: "Project Cheetah is India's 2022 plan to reintroduce cheetahs at Kuno National Park via African translocations—the world's first intercontinental big-cat move."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

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- Project Cheetah is India's 2022 programme to reintroduce the cheetah by translocating African cheetahs to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
- Why were African cheetahs used instead of the Asiatic subspecies native to India?
- What legal authority governs Project Cheetah?
- How does Project Cheetah differ from Project Tiger?
- Why are mortalities at Kuno controversial?

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Project Cheetah is India's 2022 programme to reintroduce the cheetah by translocating African cheetahs to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.

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