| There have been several studies on Cheetah reintroduction per se and recently Cheetah has been reintroduced at Kuno National Park, Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, India and there are plans to reintroduce at elsewhere in India. Cheetah’s original range included vast areas in India as well as other parts of Asia. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) is an important concept so it is worthwhile to relate Cheetah reintroduction to SDGs so that local community support and other benefits are ensured and efforts are sustainable. SDG goal 15 (Life on land) is directly related to this and within this SDG, 15.5 deals with combating species extinction. As SDGs rest on three pillars; social, economic and environmental, so it is needed to incorporate these aspects in a well integrated manner. Beside SDG 15 should relate to SDG 1 (no poverty, SDG 3 (good health and well being), SDG 5 (gender equality), SDG 6 (clean water and sanitization) and SDG 13 (climate action). These are some of the SDGs to which SDG 15 can relate while doing Cheetah reintroduction in its former range in India and other parts of Asia.
Keywords: Cheetah, Re-introduction, SDG, interaction, trade - off
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