Cheetah reintroduction in India involves the attempt to introduce and sustain a small population of Southeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus, the nominate subspecies) in India more than 70 years after India's native subspecies, the Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) became extinct there; the Asiatic subspecies is now found only in Iran in critically endangered numbers.