Can the Indian cheetah be ‘revived’ with gene tech?

The Indian government officially declared the Indian cheetah extinct in 1952. In 2022, as part of the first-ever transcontinental effort to relocate big cats, African cheetahs were brought to India and released into Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park. Now, the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow is working with the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) to reintroduce the Indian cheetah, last seen in the early 1950s. Here’s how they plan to ‘revive’ the big cat

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