Cheetah Conservation Fund

All 47 cheetahs! Read about it at http://www.cheetah.org/?nd=2009_cheetah_workups_pr. Patricia

It’s been an interesting time for the boys, and as you can see from the map, they’ve moved around quite a bit. Last week they gave us a bit of a scare, when they started following the trail of the collared female. Those of you who also monitor her progress will know that she decided [...]

The weekly download has come in, and it makes interesting viewing. It appears that our lady went no further south than we had her last week. Instead she turned around and headed up into the Nubib mountains to the East of NRNR. She is currently on a farm called Nubib, which is home to a [...]

Note. The below email has been in my outbox for nearly 24 hrs now – hopefully today the network will be more functional. Most of you are already aware of the situation with the female now anyway, but maybe this map can help visualise it. I have reduced the usual map size and quality to [...]

Learn what we have been doing through 2008. Our full-color annual report is now available at http://www.cheetah.org/?nd=progress_reports. Patricia

The boys seem to have completely settled into their new environment now. They are continuing to spend most of their time close to the penned females, but regularly range out to hunt and have made three oryx kills during this time (see map). The last one was a large male some 1.64 metres in length. [...]

Tuesday, 7 April, 2009.Well, the boys did almost next to nothing today. They may have eaten last night but I couldn’t see them well enough to determine for certain or not. I also gave Tisha and Shanti a day off of torment but will resume again tomorrow as I attempt to feed them again. But [...]

On March 30th we believe that the boys made a small kill, possibly a springbuck but have been unable to directly confirm this. Their behaviour suggests however that they are not presently hungry despite our not having witnessed a kill since the two Hartebeest back on March 24th. On the 31st they headed out onto [...]

As you can see from the attached map, the collared female is ranging very far to the West of the boys at the moment, almost out into the dunes of the Namib-Nauklaft desert. Interestingly, we received a report of a Springbok kill site in the vicinity of the rocks you can see under her latest [...]

We have all our technical problems resolved now, although we are still trying to fill in a few holes in the data from mid-March. I’ve attached the current map, which takes us up to March 29th. On March 28th, we added a new temptation for the boys, in the form of two new, younger, females; [...]