cheetah
Four conservationists convicted of espionage in Iran have been released after six years in jail. They were arrested in 2018 after being accused of spying while working to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah. Their conviction in 2019 was condemned around the world by conservationists, scientists and human rights organisations. The group, which worked with the nonprofit Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF), includes Niloufar Bayani - an Iranian wildlife researcher and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) consultant - and environmental activists Houman Jowkar, Taher Ghadirian and Sepideh Kashan...
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For many of us, safaris conjure up ideas of luxury, exclusivity and owners paying no mind to sustainability. While that is sometimes the case, Lepogo Lodges operate in a very different manner. In South Africa's Lapalala Wilderness Reserve, this particular safari destination certainly offers a luxury experience, but it also gives back, too. At the forefront of sustainable tourism, the brains behind Lepogo set it up with a very different kind of safari lodge in mind - one that operates off-grid, embraces sustainable technologies and contributes to the surrounding land and nearby communities. To ...
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By Kaisar Andrabi The world’s fastest land animal cheetahs were transported from Namibia to India’s National Park, Kuno in Central India’s Madhya Pradesh in September last year. Now in the last week, three cheetah cubs of the four that were born have died. The soaring temperatures in the country (47 degrees C) which led to dehydration have been cited as the reason by forest officials. In the past two months, the death toll of cheetahs in Kuno National Park has risen to six. Among the casualties were two cubs born to Jwala, a female cheetah who was first named Siyaya. In March, Sasha, a male ch...
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By Sk Badiruddin An old video of cheetahs seated inside a wooden enclosure and meowing in a Minnesota wildlife sanctuary has been falsely shared by news channels as an exclusive footage showing one of the cheetahs that arrived at the Kuno National Park in India from Namibia. Three male and five female Namibian cheetahs have been brought to India's Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh, from Namibia, as part of India's initiative to reintroduce the species after it was declared extinct in 1952. Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the animals in the national park premises on Saturday, August 17. ...
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By Archis Chowdhury Several handles linked to the Congress party and its members shared an image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which purportedly shows him clicking a photo using a DSLR camera, with the lens cover on. The posts sharing the image took a jibe at Modi, claiming that he is seen taking a picture of the recently imported Namibian cheetahs with the lens cover on. BOOM found that the image shared in these posts is morphed; the original photo is a mirror image of the viral photo shared on social media, and it shows Modi clicking a picture without the lens cover. The lens cover has be...
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By BOOM Team Eight cheetahs from Namibia were released in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park on Saturday as part of India's initiative to reintroduce the species after it was declared extinct in 1952. Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the cheetahs into the Kuno National Park as part of a programme to bring back the cheetahs to the country. To mark the occasion, the prime minister said, "Today, the Cheetahs have come back to our land after decades. On this historic day, I want to congratulate all Indians and also thank the government of Namibia. This could not have been possible without th...
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