Bhopal, July 30 -- South Africa has paused fresh cheetah translocations to India until it reviews the health conditions of those previously translocated, following Kenya's refusal to provide them, officials said. India launched the cheetah reintroduction project in September 2022, years after the species was declared extinct in the country in 1947. Twenty cheetahs were brought to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park. Eight were flown from Namibia in September 2022 and 12 from South Africa in February 2023. Officials said a three-member expert team, including a National Tiger Conservation Authority official, visited South Africa for discussions on the fresh translocation. They added the panel highlighted "the success" of the previously translocated cheetahs in adapting to the wild at Kuno, their coexistence with leopards and nearby human populations after the release of 17 cheetahs in the wild....