Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the cats into their enclosure Saturday morning.
The cats emerged from their cage, tentatively at first while continuously scanning their new surroundings.
There are less than 7,000 adult cheetahs left in the wild globally, and they now inhabit less than 9% of their original range. Shrinking habitat, due to the increasing human population and climate change, is a huge threat and India’s grasslands and forests could offer "appropriate" homes for the big cat, said Laurie Marker, of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, an advocacy and research group assisting in bringing the cats to India.Cheetah populations in most countries are declining.
There is only one village with a few hundred families still residing on the fringes of the park. Indian officials said they’d be moved soon, and any livestock loss due to cheetahs will be compensated. The project is estimated to cost $11.5 million over five years, including $6.3 million that will be paid for by state-owned Indian Oil.
"It would be better to conserve them now where they are than to put effort in creating new sites where the outcome is questionable," she said.
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