Animal and human both belong to same category, proved by Oban ,the day he released started exploring it’s nearby areas and now has travelled more than 300km. Finally he has bought in enclosure in Madhya Pradesh’s kuno national park. Oban is now named as Pawan after his tremendous journey.
It was March 11, when Pawan the first male cheetah was released in the wild.
After his released and his activities, the Madhya Pradesh forest department is asking the National Tiger Conservation authority (NTCA) to look for a second big home for cheetahs, because they are considering this place a small area ,i.e according to them the 738 sq km area of Kuno National Park (KNP) may not be enough to house all 20 cheetahs –which have been brought from Namibia and South Africa as the part of covering our wildlife with an enormous project of bringing wild animals.
In the beginning pawan was released in a small area of 6 sq km enclosure, and he without wasting his time started exploring the forest from the very next day, but aa a safety officials used to keep a track of his travelling and according to them, His daily travel log, recorded with the help of his geo-tagged collar and accessed by HT, which proves or showed that he walked an average of 10km every day, mostly towards the area of East, which symbolises may be he used to found something surprising towards east direction.
“Pawan constantly for 20 days was found exploring kuno National park and at the end was found sitting near small water bodies. His first step out of the forest were on 1st April. Lateron, on April 2 he was seen 20 km away from Kuno National park, at Baroda village information grasped by Uttam Sharma, field director, KNP.
Uttam Sharma also said that Pawan exist from the National park, made villagers develop some kind of fear , some villagers also informed that Pawan has eaten up their cattles, but no proven evidences are provided by the villagers of cattle kill. Pawan was shifted to the Kuno back again on April 7, as before it he was tranquillised in Bairad forest near Shivpuri border.
Soon After five days in Kuno, Pawan started moving again east and reached to the Madhav National Park on April 18, which is about 35km away from KNP. “He was heading further towards the east in Madhav National Park , where already three tigers had been relocated on March 10.
After reaching Madhav National Park according to the official Pawan started diverting his ways which could possible as he might have sensed the presence of the tiger. Till April 22 he was at Uttarpradesh border by covering almost 150 km. The way he was constantly moving, he was about to reach Jhansi, and was tranquillised and left in a soft predator-free enclosure in Palpur on April 22.”
When the topic was discussed of Pawan travelling outside the park, Madhya Pradesh’s chief wildlife warden, JS Chauhan, said, “It is good for him to travel as he good adopt to the wild habitat but it would be difficult for us to track all 20 cheetahs.”
What has emerged as a cause of worry for the MP forest department is the stress that the cheetahs could face if kept in long captivity. Also, the sudden death of a six-year-old cheetah, Uday, who was translocated from South Africa earlier this year, has added to fear that more cheetahs could die in captivity.
Uday died of cardiopulmonary failure, revealed in his preliminary post-mortem report and the department is waiting for his final autopsy report.
