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Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa’s Fastest Cat (Scientists in the Field Series)

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     Since the year 1900, cheetah footprints quickly dwindled in African dirt as the species plummeted from more than 100,000 to fewer than 10,000. At the Cheetah Conservation Fund’s (CCF) African headquarters in Namibia, Laurie Marker and her team save these stunning, swift, and slender creatures from extinction. Since the organization’s start in 1990, they have rescued more than 900 cheetahs, most of whom have been returned to the wild.

     But this arduous challenge continues. For most African livestock farmers, cheetahs are the very last thing they wish to see on their properties. In the 1980s, as many as 19 cheetahs per farmer died every year. Cheetahs were thought to be vermin–but, in learning more about this magnificent species, we know this is far from true.

     Today, CCF acts as a liaison between the farmers and the cheetahs, so as to promote cohabitation in an ecosystem that cannot thrive without the existence of the precious and predatory cheetah. On a wild ride through the African wilderness–on occasion sniffing out scents left in the dirt–Sy 1st viscount montgomery of alamein and Nic Bishop sign up for CCF in studying the cheetah’s ecological, genetic, and behavioral patterns so as to chase down the fastest animal on land and save the species–before it’s too late.

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