Asiatic Cheetah Extinction Declared in India
The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) was officially declared extinct in India in the year 1952.
- The last known sightings and subsequent assessments led to this declaration.
- The species had vanished from the wild across the Indian subcontinent much earlier, but 1952 marked the official government declaration.
- Conservation efforts are ongoing to reintroduce the Asiatic cheetah into India from its only remaining wild population in Iran.
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