Kuno National Park
Kuno National Park, located in the Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, recently gained attention after two female cheetahs brought from Botswana were released into the wild under Project Cheetah. The park is situated in the Vindhyan landscape and is named after the Kuno River, a tributary of the Chambal River flowing through the region.
Initially established as a wildlife sanctuary in 1981, Kuno was expanded into a national park in 2018 with an area of about 748 sq km. The park contains tropical dry deciduous forests
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