Nearly eight decades after the last cheetah was hunted to extinction in India, its cousins from Africa are now here to restore the spots of glory. It’s very rare for an extinct species in one part of the world to be populated by a lot from another- that too an apex predator. Cheetahs – brought from Namibia – are being introduced in India under Project Cheetah, which is world’s first inter-continental large wild carnivore translocation project. PM Narendra Modi released eight cheetahs to the enclosures inside Kuno National Park in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh through the apparatus, rotating a lever on Saturday morning. It is also PM Modi’s birthday today.