Project Cheetah: India’s Landmark Wildlife Restoration Initiative Shows Strong Progress and Promising Future

• Project Cheetah is the world's first intercontinental large-carnivore translocation, aimed at reintroducing the cheetah (locally extinct in India since 1952) into Indian habitats.
• Launched 17 September 2022 at Kuno National Park (KNP), Madhya Pradesh, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and implemented via the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
• Relevant for UPSC across environment, species conservation, federal implementation, and India's soft-power diplomacy through the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA).