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International Cheetah Day: Survival still at stake for the world’s fastest cat

By Mongabay.com Dec. 4 is International Cheetah Day. It was established in 2010 by the Cheetah Conservation Fund to raise awareness about the dwindling populations and shrinking habitats of the ...
AZ Animals

The Cheetah’s Genetic Curse: How Ancient Inbreeding Still Haunts the Fastest Cat on Earth

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

How a sperm bank for cheetahs might one day save the fastest land animal

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia, hoping conservationists never have to use ...

A sperm bank for cheetahs could one day save the world's fastest land animal from extinction

Experts worry cheetahs may one day be on the brink of extinction and need artificial reproduction to save them. View on ...
WGBH

She raised a cheetah cub in the ’70s. Now, she’s saving them from extinction.

Back in the 1970s, Dr. Laurie Marker hand-raised a cheetah cub and successfully taught it to hunt, sparking a lifelong mission. Since then, she’s built the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, a ...
Press Trust of India on MSN

Madhya Pradesh CM to release three cheetahs in wild at Kuno National Park

Shivpuri Collector Ravindra Chaudhary and Superintendent of Police Aman Singh Rathore were also present.Earlier in April, the chief minister had released two cheetahs from Kuno National Park into the ...

What happened when a wildlife photographer woke up with a curled up cheetah beside him

Wildlife photographer Dolph Volker experienced an extraordinary encounter when a cheetah named Eden rested her head on him at ...