India celebrates birth of cheetah cubs to boost reintroduction bid

"A roaring new chapter," Bhupender Yadav said in a statement, noting that India's cheetah population now stands at 38. Despite high mortality, it marks an overall rise of 35 percent from the 28 introduced in batches since 2022. Yadav shared a photograph of the spotted big cat with the trio of tiny cubs, born to a South African cheetah giving birth in India for the second time. Asiatic cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952. The critically endangered subspecies, once found across the Middle East...