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The Cheetah Conservation Fund is a research and lobby institution in Namibia concerned with the study and sustenance of the country's cheetah population, the largest and healthiest in the world. Its Research and Education Centre is located 44 kilometres (27 mi) east of Otjiwarongo .
In 1990, Marker founded the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), which began as a research outpost in a small farmhouse on some land in Otjiwarongo, Namibia. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] She got the funding to purchase and start the initial facility by selling all of her possessions. [ 4 ]
Founded in Namibia in 1990, the Cheetah Conservation Fund's mission is to be the world's resource charged with protecting the cheetah and to ensure its future. The organization works with all stakeholders within the cheetah's ecosystem to develop best practices in research, education, and ecology, and create a sustainable model from which all ...
Dr. Laurie Marker, founder of the Namibia, Africa-based Cheetah Conservation Fund, takes a selfie in front of the bronze cheetah sculpture in front of the headquarters for Brown & Brown Insurance ...
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Around 300 of the dogs have been given to farmers in Namibia since 1994 by the Cheetah Conservation Fund to help protect livestock from cheetah attacks, and the programme has been extended to Kenya. [8] Since then, the number of cheetahs killed by farmers is calculated to have fallen from 19 per farmer annually to 2.4.
Pages in category "Nature conservation in Namibia" ... Cheetah Conservation Fund; Cheetah Preservation Foundation; Communal wildlife conservancies in Namibia; H.
There's a gradient of species richness in Namibia that extends from southwest to northeast, which is similar to the pattern of rainfall. [14] Because of the aridity, many animal species rely on protected migration corridors during droughty conditions. [13] Currently, about 50% of all species in Namibia are of some conservation concern. [14]