India One Step Closer to Reintroducing Wild Cheetahs
The Asiatic cheetah once ruled that plains in India and the Middle East, but now its population is estimated to be 100 individuals or less. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
Pursued by trophy hunters and herdsman, the Asiatic cheetah was brought to brink of extinction under the rule of the Raj and finally disappeared from India in the 1940s. Today, the species survives only in the remote grasslands of Iran but, if a conservation plan already in progress is a success, that may change....Read the full story on TreeHugger
