Cheetah Conservation Fund

Visitors, farmers, volunteers and students are always welcome at CCF, and we have certainly kept busy on this front.
With the support of AGRA and the NAU/NNFU President’s Committee, CCF has completed five major farmers’ training courses in integrated livestock and predator management and financial management for over 100 emerging and re-settled farmers. We have also [...]

Sadly, our oldest breeding female and one of the founders of our dog programme, Zanta (at right, six years ago), had to be put to sleep due to age-related illnesses. She was 13 years old and had produced five litters and 54 litters number of puppies. Her daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughters are carrying on [...]

During the past three months, CCF has made significant progress on cheetah population estimates using camera-trapping methodology. After finishing a camera-trapping survey 200 km south in the Sandveld Conservancy, CCF’s ecologists, Fabiano, and Chris started another three-month survey around the Waterberg Conservancy.
In June, we hosted a Bayesian Networks Workshop (at right) for our Namibia cheetah [...]

Our recent days have been hectic. We have been feeding newborn cheetah cubs around the clock. A farmer shot a very pregnant female cheetah, due to his dislike for cheetahs, and found the stomach moving. He opened her up and found four cubs. Unfortunately, one did not make it; however the other three are doing [...]

CCF Kenya’s renovation of four cattle dips in the Kiu area, designed to encourage sustainable farming, is having a great impact on the community only two years after implementation. CCFK Community Liaison Officer Lumumba (left, at community meeting) says the attitude of people who have lost livestock and their willingness to be interviewed has dramatically [...]