Officials from the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on Sunday said that they have taken cognisance of reports concerning cheetahs (KP-2 and KP-3) from Kuno National Park (KNP), Madhya Pradesh, moving into the Baran district of Rajasthan.The officials said that cheetahs’ have been tracked, and the NTCA was actively coordinating with the Forest Departments of both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. In February, cheetahs from KNP had entered Rajasthan.“KP-2 has been tracked in the Mangrol range of Baran, while KP-3 entered the Banjh Amli Conservation Reserve after travelling 60–70 km from KNP. Both animals are positioned approximately 6 km apart on either bank of the Parvati River. Both cheetahs are under 24×7 GPS and radio-collar monitoring by a joint inter-state team, with field teams deployed from the Kishanganj and Anta ranges,” an NTCA official said.The authority further said that long-distance dispersal across landscape boundaries was a well-documented and natural territorial behaviour in cheetahs. “The Project Cheetah Action Plan explicitly anticipates and provides for inter-state movement within the Kuno–Gandhi Sagar metapopulation landscape. These movements reinforce the strategic rationale for the proposed 17,000 sq km Kuno–Gandhi Sagar inter-state wildlife corridor spanning seven districts in Rajasthan and eight in MP,” an official said.Earlier in December 2025, KP-2 had entered the same region before being tranquilised and relocated to KNP. However, experts have advised against tranquilising KP-2 for the second time within a span of three months as repeated tranquilisation could impact the health of the big cat.An MoU was also proposed, which if formalised, could have commenced a study on developing grasslands for the movement of cheetahs in both states. However, the MoU is yet to be signed between Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.