Cheetah Conservation Fund

Category: Cheetah - Education, Cheetah - General | Date: Apr 25 2008 | By: admin

Hi

My stay in California was successful. I stayed with former Earthwatch volunteers, Heidi and her daughter Emily, who were at CCF during 2007. They live on a beatiful farm with a vineyard in Woodside. We talked about vineyards alot. She has a smart partnership with the wine company, who are responsible for prunning and harvesting of the grapes. She has similar problems with birds as does CCF and drapes netting over the vines when the fruits are about to ripen.

I gave a brown bag talk at the San Fransisco Zoo for about 40 zoo docents and staff. They do not have cheetahs there but have other large cats such as tigers, lions, snow leopards and fishing cats. The participants were overwhelmingly interested in the
CCF presentation - lots of questions. My second presentation was at a pizza party in Palo Alto. This event was arranged by the Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN). Both Laurie’s parents were present. It was more of a cheetah family event since our main donors and supporters were present. I also had the opportunity to meet members of the CCF USA Board of Trustees.

I arrived safely in Phoenix, AZ Arizona and spent the afternoon helping David Bluestein (the Run for the Cheetah director) with setting up the course. On Friday, I will have a brown bag presentation at noon and a conference call with my team Jaguar.

Defenders of Wildlife has requested that we develop cheetah education materials for kids for their website before August.

I am participating in the Cheetah run on Saturday, 26 April. We are hoping for many runner! My flight back to Namibia will be on Sunday 27th.

Regards,

Matti

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Category: Cheetah - Education, Cheetah - General | Date: Apr 24 2008 | By: admin

If you read our E-letter, you know that CCF Namibia’s Senior Research Assistant, Matti Nghikembua, is visiting the U.S. for the second year. Here is a recent note we received from him:

Hi

I arrived safely here in California - San Jose. I met Vicki and Sharon, past Earthwarch volunteers with CCF in 2007. Yesterday I went to an early Earth Day event at the Westwind Barn with Barbara and Rob Dicely and had dinner afterwards.

At the Cincinnati Zoo, I gave a presentation to the 50 zoo staff, volunteers and a school group that showed up. I also went to visit a school in Bethel where I gave a presentation to 450 kids (ages 5 - 8). That was a lot of energy there given the short attention span, but i made it more interactive. Veronica, who is a teacher at the school, donated A LOT of art supplies which se will ship to CCF Namibia. My stay in Columbus was great and Patty Kuun was very useful.

Regards,

Matti

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Category: Cheetah - Conservation Programmes, Cheetah - Education, Cheetah - General, Cheetah - Research, Uncategorized | Date: Apr 20 2008 | By: admin

It has been a long time since our last blog. We have been so busy! But finally, Dr. Laurie Marker’s most recent Field Notes are now available online by clicking here!.

Learn about our latest batch of eight puppies donated to farmers, or the new puppy just arrived from Holland — Annual physicals were conducted in record time on all of CCF’s 47 non-releasable cheetahs while training two vets from the Kenya Wildlife Service — Two male cheetahs captured nearby contributed to the Cheetah Genome Bank — Farmers, schools, volunteers and visitors have kept us busy as we continue to teach them about cheetah conservation — and the capture of another cheetah and her cub gave us an opportunity to teach a Polytechnic group of agriculture students how one farmer’s failed predator control caused another livestock loss. So much has been going on !!!

Find out where Dr. Laurie Marker will be during her May trip to Europe and the US –where she will receive two prestigious awards, and read about her February travels in Cameroon and the U.S. Learn about our latest Run for the Cheetah success in Chicago with 700 runners, including CCF Namibia’s Senior Research Assistant Matti Nghikembua.

So much is happening at CCF. We hope you enjoy the reading.

Patricia

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