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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav connected Sunday released gharials and turtles into the stream astatine Kuno National Park successful Sheopur district, calling it an important measurement towards conservation.
Mr. Yadav released 53 gharials and 25 turtles into the Kuno River adjacent the Palpur Fort wrong the nationalist parkland during a programme organised nether the aegis of the National Chambal Sanctuary.
Speaking connected the occasion, helium said conservation and augmentation of the gharial and turtle colonisation were being undertaken, and the authorities authorities was taking efforts to support endangered species.
Mr. Yadav pointed retired that the cheetah reintroduction project, launched astatine KNP nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative, was moving steadily towards success.
Nine cheetahs airlifted from Botswana were released into the nationalist parkland connected Saturday, taking their fig to 48.
According to officials, of the gharials released successful the river, 28 were antheral and 25 female.
The turtles released were of the three-striped roofed turtle taxon (Batagur dhongoka), they said.
