FILE – A cheetah lies inside a transport cage before traveling to India, at the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. India welcomed 12 cheetahs from South Africa on Saturday, which will join eight others it received from Namibia last year as part of an ambitious drive to reintroduce the big cats in the country after 70 years. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich, File)

India on Saturday received 12 cheetahs from South Africa. This is the second batch to be released into a national park in an effort to reintroduce the big cats to the wild after 70 years. The cheetahs were then taken to the state’s Kuno National Park by helicopter.

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