Kuno National Park welcomes 12 South African cheetahs

National Desk:
12 South African cheetahs were released into enclosures inside Kuno National Park at Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh by the Union environment minister Bhupendra Yadav, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and other guests on Saturday afternoon.
The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) C-17 Globemaster plane which took off from OR Tambo International Airport, Gauteng, South Africa carrying these cheetahs reached Maharajpur air base around 10.30am and they were taken to Kuno in choppers.
An IAF C-17 aircraft carrying the second batch of 12 Cheetahs landed at Air Force Station in Gwalior earlier today, after a 10-hour flight from Johannesburg, South Africa.