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Plans to reintroduce cheetahs prompts conservation debate in India
Times Online ^ | September 14, 2009 | Jeremy Page

Posted on 09/14/2009 4:52:15 PM PDT by decimon

India is planning to reintroduce cheetahs into the wild, more than six decades after they were thought to have been hunted into extinction in the sub-continent.

But the plans have ignited a debate about wildlife conservation, with opponents arguing that India has neither the land nor the funds to sustain cheetahs and the dwindling tiger population. Wildlife experts and officials met in the northen Indian state of Rajasthan last week to draw up proposals to import up to 100 cheetahs from Africa over the next ten years.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittyping

Run! Go ahead and run.

1 posted on 09/14/2009 4:52:15 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Slings and Arrows

Charismatic cat ping.


2 posted on 09/14/2009 4:54:02 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Love your comment! Run!


3 posted on 09/14/2009 4:54:49 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: decimon

4 posted on 09/14/2009 5:22:04 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Run, Joe, run! ;-)

Great shot. That cat’s haulin’.


5 posted on 09/14/2009 5:40:24 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Bahbah; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...
Charismatic cat ping.

Beautiful cat, bad idea.


6 posted on 09/14/2009 7:46:56 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Crazy is the new sane.)
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To: JoeProBono

Look out, for the cheetah!


7 posted on 09/14/2009 10:50:41 PM PDT by rahbert (All Kenny G, all the time)
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To: decimon

Oh brother....people will organize canned hunts for them. BAd idea is right...people suck when it comes to hunting for fur and fun.


8 posted on 09/15/2009 8:57:58 AM PDT by Fawn (Rush Limbaugh---> America's pinata)
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To: Fawn
Oh brother....people will organize canned hunts for them.

Could be. Maybe some will go back to using them for hunting.

9 posted on 09/15/2009 10:35:28 AM PDT by decimon
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