Bhopal, June 2 -- Eight more cheetahs will be released into the wild at Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP) in the next few weeks, a high-level committee formed to monitor the progress of the Cheetah reintroduction project announced on Thursday.
The committee dismissed claims of the state forest department that KNP does not have enough space to accommodate all the cheetahs and also rejected the views of African experts that India should fence the habitats for the wild animal. "KNP has enough space for 20 cheetahs. So of the 10 adult cheetahs who are in the enclosure, eight will be released into the wild soon," Rajesh Gopal, head of the Cheetah Project Steering Committee, said.
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