On the birthday of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, eight leopards are being released in the Kono National Park in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
These leopards have been brought to India on a special plane from Namibia.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Kono National Park by helicopter to release these leopards into the wild.
Earlier, a special chartered cargo flight carrying eight leopards from Namibia landed at the Indian Air Force base in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh on Saturday morning.
According to officials, the eight Namibian cheetahs brought to India are part of a breeding project.
The wild cheetahs were transported by road from a game park north of Windhoek, Namibia's capital, to a chartered Boeing 747, dubbed the 'Cat Plane' and painted with cheetahs.
These leopards were brought to India in an 11-hour flight from Namibia.
According to India's High Commissioner to Namibia, Prashant Agarwal, the project is the first transcontinental migration of the world's fastest running cheetah.
"This is a historic event," he told AFP. It is happening for the first time at the global level.
"We are all excited because it is happening in the 75th year of India's independence," he said.
