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A cheetah named Oban from Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park has strayed into agricultural fields and entered in Sheopur district's Jhar Baroda village, 20 kms away from the national park..
Cheetah Oban, one of the cheetahs brought from Namibia, entered Jhar Baroda village of Vijaypur which is 20 kms away from Kuno National Park..
They are among eight cheetahs, five females four males, that have been brought to the national park from Namibia as a part of Centre's ambitious reintroduction programme of the species and were released into special enclosures..
Last year, PM Modi released these cheetahs from Namibia, in the first leg of the translocation project after a decades-long effort to restore a species that was declared extinct in 1952, owing to poaching and shrinking grasslands..
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