Bhopal:
A driver who was seen in a viral video providing water to a cheetah and her cubs at Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno Nationwide Park (KNP) has been fired after a disciplinary motion was initiated towards him for violating the official directions.
The person, employed for the duties of the forest division, was seen giving water in a metal bowl to Jwala – which is amongst these animals translocated from Namibia below Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Undertaking Cheetah – and her 4 cubs.
The video additionally confirmed him saying “come” with Jwala responding immediately. She then approached him in a peaceful method and began ingesting from the bowl. The cubs additionally adopted their mom.
An official stated a disciplinary motion was initiated as the sphere workers violated the directions and confirmed indiscipline.
“Additional, a video was made and shared within the media disregarding each self-discipline and directions on this regard. Motion is being taken towards the involved workers,” Further Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (APCCF) Uttam Kumar Sharma was quoted as saying by the information company PTI on Sunday.
He stated Jwala and her 4 cubs had been transferring within the fields near human habitation within the Agra vary close to the boundary of the KNP.
“The monitoring crew, normally, has been instructed to attempt to deviate/lure the cheetah again contained in the forest each time such a state of affairs arises in order to not create human-cheetah battle. At any time when a cheetah goes into agriculture fields or near human habitation, extra workers is named from the involved vary. On this case too, extra area workers from vary Agra was referred to as,” he stated.
Since cheetah Jwala and her 4 cubs had been repeatedly transferring within the open agriculture fields within the solar and going in the direction of human habitation, water was provided to lure them again in the direction of the forest, he stated.
“One of many drivers (a day by day wager) of the car employed for the duties of forest division in vary Agra, Kuno WLD, gave water in a metal bowl to Jwala and her 4 cubs. There are clear directions to maneuver away from cheetahs as per the coaching given to the monitoring crew to deal with cheetahs in shut proximity. Solely authorised individuals can go in shut proximity to cheetahs to carry out a selected job,” Mr Sharma stated.
At present, 17 cheetahs, together with 11 cubs born on Indian soil, are roaming within the wild on the park, whereas 9 are in enclosures.
Eight Namibian cheetahs, 5 females and three males, had been launched in KNP in September 2022, marking the first-ever intercontinental translocation of the large cats. In February 2023, 12 extra cheetahs had been translocated from South Africa to the sanctuary.
The protected forest now has 26 cheetahs, together with 14 India-born cubs.
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