India celebrates the birth of cheetah cubs after 70 years of extinction.

India has announced the birth of four cheetah cubs, decades after the species was declared extinct in the country. The cubs were born to one of the eight Namibian cheetahs that were relocated to India last year as part of a project to reintroduce the spotted big cats. India was once home to the Asiatic cheetah but it was declared extinct there in 1952. The critically endangered subspecies, which once roamed across the Middle East, Central Asia and India, are now only found in very small numbers in Iran.