India and Botswana on Wednesday formally declared the plan to translocate eight Cheetahs from the African nation during the state visit of President Droupadi Murmu.
The President, while thanking her counterpart President Duma Gideon Boko and the people of one of the world’s largest diamond producer countries for the gesture, assured that we will take good care of them (Cheetahs).
Boko said his country will symbolically hand over the big cats to her excellency (Mumru) on Thursday.
The two heads of state will preside over an event where eight captured Cheetahs will be released into a quarantine facility at the Mokolodi nature reserve, marking the symbolic handing over of the hunting cats to India by Botswana as part of Project Cheetah and under a mutual initiative for wildlife conservation.
The Cheetahs have been brought to the nature reserve, 10 kms south of Gaborone, from the Ghanzi town located in the Kalahari desert.
Botswana is a landlocked nation whose 70 per cent landmass is​India and Botswana on Wednesday formally declared the plan to translocate eight Cheetahs from the African nation during the state visit of President Droupadi Murmu.
The President, while thanking her counterpart President Duma Gideon Boko and the people of one of the world’s largest diamond producer countries for the gesture, assured that we will take good care of them (Cheetahs).
Boko said his country will symbolically hand over the big cats to her excellency (Mumru) on Thursday.
The two heads of state will preside over an event where eight captured Cheetahs will be released into a quarantine facility at the Mokolodi nature reserve, marking the symbolic handing over of the hunting cats to India by Botswana as part of Project Cheetah and under a mutual initiative for wildlife conservation.
The Cheetahs have been brought to the nature reserve, 10 kms south of Gaborone, from the Ghanzi town located in the Kalahari desert.
Botswana is a landlocked nation whose 70 per cent landmass is ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
