Mixed Results for Cheetah Conservation Efforts in India

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Mixed Results for Cheetah Conservation Efforts in India
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Sasha, a cheetah relocated from Namibia to India as part of conservation efforts, has died from a kidney infection. Sasha was one of eight cheetahs brought to India's Kuno National Park last year as part of a government plan to reintroduce the species on the subcontinent. The other cheetahs in the park are healthy. Cheetahs were declared extinct in India over 70 years ago, but India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change hopes they'll once again roam the country's national parks.

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