Mukhi, an India-born cheetah at Kuno National Park, reaches adulthood on Monday, marking a historic milestone for India’s reintroduction effort. Her survival, despite the deaths of siblings, highlights the program’s growing success, with Kuno’s cub survival rate reported above 61%. Officials now plan to expand the gene pool, aiming to prove cheetahs can thrive and reproduce in Indian conditions.
Beneath England’s countryside, the Millennium Seed Bank is marking 25 years of storing more than 2.5 billion wild plant seeds—an insurance policy against extinction. Opened by King Charles III, the facility is not just preserving biodiversity but improving techniques to safeguard ecosystems and support restoration worldwide as environmental pressures mount.
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