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An SSP master plan is a document produced by the SSP coordinator (generally a zoo professional under the guidance of an elected management committee) [1] for a certain species. This document sets ex situ population goals and other management recommendations to achieve the maximum genetic diversity and demographic stability for a species, given ...
Since 1988, Marker has been a Member of the IUCN/SSC Conservation Specialist Group - Cheetah Species Survival Plan, and a Propagation Committee Advisor (AZA/SSP). [3] From 1991 to present she is a Member of the IUCN/SSC, Captive Breeding Specialist Group. [3] In 2001 she began work as a member of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Core Group. [3]
Cheetahs might be fast, but they aren't the smartest of felines around. The cheetah population is declining in large part because of human influences like climate change and habitat destructions.
EEP is one of the worldwide assembly of such regional breeding programs in zoos for threatened species. The North America counterpart is the Species Survival Plan, and Australian, Japanese, Indian, and Chinese [7] zoos also have similar programs. Combined, there are now many hundred zoos worldwide involved in regional breeding programs.
Cheetahs are known to be difficult to breed and therefore, the survival rate of cheetah cubs is low both in the wild and in captivity. However, the project has been successful so far. In April 2010, the first four cheetah cubs had been born on the island from a successfully rewilded Northeast African cheetah mother named 'Safira'.
Population bottleneck followed by recovery or extinction. A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes, floods, fires, disease, and droughts; or human activities such as genocide, speciocide, widespread violence or intentional culling.
Conservation breeding programmes (such as the Species Survival Plan (SSP), established 1981, or the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP), established 1985) are typically organized at the level of the regional associations, in particular AZA and EAZA, because the exchange of animals between regions is expensive and - mainly due to ...
The Saharan cheetah is thought to be regionally extinct in Morocco, Western Sahara, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. [2] In Mali, cheetahs were sighted in Adrar des Ifoghas and in the Kidal Region in the 1990s. [7] In 2010, a cheetah was photographed in Niger's Termit Massif by a camera trap. [8]