Can the cheetahs help India’s grasslands?
Parley by The Hindu
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The Importance of Exclusion in Cheetah Conservation
Average homerim size for cheetahs in the best of habitats in East Africa is 750 square kilometers. They exist in low densities of less than 1 to 100 square kilometers so let's be generous and say 750 can host anything between 8 to 10 cheetahs but 8 to 10 do not make a viable population. Even the best case scenario estimate is 21 cheetahs which doesn't makes a viable population they talk of meta-string I mean meta population management and things like that. But all given India's conservation approach the challenges that we face the level of human population presence that we have to engage with and deal with I think we are shooting far beyond what is feasible.
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