2 successful cheetah conservation
1) Mara cheetah project
All of the efforts and research on cheetahs come from Namibia, Tanzania and Botswana. At the time of writing this, Kenya has only published two peer-reviewed research. Hence, in-depth facts about cheetahs in the country is very scant. As a result, a team of scientists at the University of Oxford, the Kenya Wildlife Trust and the Indian Statistical Institute formed the Mara Cheetah Project to address the problem. Its aim is to detect the threats faced by cheetahs in the Mara, find out the number of cheetahs and, where possible, address the risks. The project uses a research-driven approach. It relies on research, long-term cheetah monitoring and conservation.
2) Cheetah conservation fund
In 1990, Dr. Laurie Marker founded Cheetah conservation fund to save the cheetahs in the world. It has created a set of programs using its research aimed at addressing the threats not only to cheetah but also to the human beings. The programs are rooted in research papers on the biology, genetics and ecology of cheetahs that are published in journals every year. This organisation has the only fully equipped lab in Africa. It operates from the belief that only by securing the community’s future that lives alongside the animal can you protect a future for the cheetah.
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