Bringing the Cheetah Back to India: How Diplomacy Made Conservation's Big Mission Possible

Prashant Agrawal

A riveting account of the diplomatic effort to restore the cheetah in India

For seventy years, India endured the absence of the cheetah, which had been hunted to extinction and erased from its grasslands. Bringing the world's fastest land animal back to the country would require much more than scientific research or conservation programmes. It would require the vision and leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, and manoeuvring a world of diplomatic equations, alliances and high-stakes negotiations across continents.

This book for the first time narrates the human drama behind one of conservation's most ambitious experiments. From high offices in Namibia to fast-paced action in New Delhi, Bringing the Cheetah Back to India tells the astonishing story of how nations joined hands in a race against time to resurrect a ghost, restore an ecosystem and rewrite the rules of rewilding itself.