Updates on the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), including populations status, habitats, new research, conservation issues and solutions.
A study recently published in the journal Onyx by Cambridge University Press, on behalf of Fauna & Flora International, highlights a remarkable conservation success story involving the rehabilitation of orphaned cheetahs in Namibia. Between 2002 and 2018, an...
Owning a cheetah has become a status symbol in the Middle East, according to the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), who warns their popularity as a “hot new luxury pet” is putting wild cheetah populations at greater risk – and possibly extinction....
African cheetah populations are small and fragmented. From Pieter's Blog at LionAid.org, a report on the illegal trade of cheetahs and their "uncertain future." LIONAID: A recent poster by the Rangewide Conservation Program for Cheetahs and African Wild Dogs (RWCP)...
A family of Asiatic cheetahs has been spotted in Iran’s Turan national park. The mother and four cubs were discovered by conservationists at the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation. The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) also called the Iranian cheetah, is...
CCF Operations Manager Brian Badger explains how our Livestock Guarding Dog program works as part of the whole of CCF's operations to help save the cheetah i...
Learn more about how Cheetah Conservation Fund incorporates genetic research into the race to save the cheetah. Video shot in Namibia, edited by Kate Simerly.