HR!Day522 - Saving the Cheetahs: The Story of the Cheetah Conservation Fund
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Today we look at the cheetahs,the fastest animals on earth, now threatened with extinction
- Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) is the global leader in research and conservation of cheetahs. Founded in Namibia in 1990, CCF is dedicated to saving the cheetah in the wild. Cheetahs used to thrive in numbers of over 100,000 over a range that stretched across most of Africa through Asia; today there are less than 7,500 remaining, occupying only 9% of their natural range. The cheetah is Africa’s most endangered big cat. Namibia, with an estimated 1,500 wild cheetahs, has approximately a quarter of the remaining cheetahs. Otjiwarongo, Namibia, the town where CCF’s Centre is based, is recognized as “The Cheetah Capital of the World.” CCF conducts intensive scientific research and publishes papers on findings in areas such as cheetah genetics; biology; ecology; health and reproduction; human impact; and species survival. CCF's conservation science programs include combinations of in situ and ex situ research efforts. Current and past projects focus on the biomedical, morphological, reproductive and genetic status of cheetah in Namibia; cheetah habitat use; home range and demographic rate; census techniques, rewilding and reintroduction; and the ecological monitoring of game species through game counts. CCF’s International Field Research and Education Centre in Otjiwarongo houses a research facility; a veterinary clinic and laboratories; a visitor center; lecture hall; an interactive education center and museum, and an overnight camping facility accommodating Namibian and international groups participating in CCF programs. CCF also maintains a cheetah sanctuary to care for orphan or injured cheetahs; a 57,661-hectare integrated Model Farm and Wildlife Reserve, a goat creamery for training agricultural workers; and a 4,000-hectare wildlife holding area, the Bellebeno Game Camp, used for soft-releasing cheetahs before re-introducing them to the wild. In addition, CCF houses the only cheetah genetics laboratory in Africa and a Genome Resource Bank. CCF holds the world’s largest wild cheetah database of biological material.
- Dr. Laurie Marker is a conservation scientist and Founder and Executive Director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF). An expert with more than 45 years’ experience creating conservation strategies for cheetah specializing in human-wildlife conflict, illegal wildlife trade, human livelihoods and captive breeding, Dr. Marker has published more than 150 research papers and five books. In 2018, she co-edited and co-authored the most comprehensive textbook on the species, CHEETAHS: Biology & Conservation. Dr. Marker is a member of IUCN's Cat Specialist Group and Panthera's Cat Advisory Council, and she serves as Scientific Advisor for the Mountain Lion Foundation. In 2021, she was named a Founding Trustee for the Global Fund for the Arabian Leopard, a quasi-governmental organization for big cat conservation based in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Marker earned her DPhil in Zoology from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She is a Professor-at-Large with Cornell University in the United States. Dr. Marker began working with cheetahs at Oregon’s Wildlife Safari in 1974, and in 1990, she launched CCF in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, the “Cheetah Capital of the World” with a mission of creating a permanent place for cheetahs on Earth. Currently, Dr Marker is developing a second Cheetah Centre in Somaliland to support East African populations and serve as a base for CCF’s project to combat the illegal wildlife trade in cubs.
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- Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University
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