Impact

How Your 2025 Support Helped !

  • by Cheetah Conservation Fund Canada January 20, 2026
How Your 2025 Support Helped !

Here’s how your generosity has helped our work in Namibia and in Somaliland.

We have been able to transfer almost $222,000 directly to the front lines of conservation. These are some highlights of the impact:

🐾 Lifesaving Care & Rehabilitation 

CCF is providing care for nearly 150 cheetahs, in facilities in Namibia and Somaliland. Your donations provided:

  • Cheetah Care: Supporting 7-9 cheetahs at CCF Centres.
  • Vital Nutrition: Specialized diets and supplements to keep rescued cheetahs strong.
  • Mobile Medical Equipment: New mobile x-ray and ultrasound equipment, allowing CCF’s vet teams to diagnose and treat injuries faster than ever before.
  • Back into the Wild: Ten cheetahs will be fitted with satellite collars (including 2-year data plans), a critical step in releasing them back into the wild where they belong.

Empowering Communities & Protecting Livestock 

Conservation isn’t just about animals; it’s also about people.

  • Education: CCF is engaging youth and farmers in Namibia, fostering a new generation of conservation leaders, who are knowledgeable about and proud of their country.  Your support helps provide sustainable outcomes for future generation.
  • Livestock Guarding Dogs: Canada has supported the breeding and training of puppies that become essential for farmers in protecting livestock, reducing conflict and saving cheetahs from retaliatory killings.

🤝 Global Partnerships 

We also support the Mara-Meru Cheetah Project in Kenya. Canadian contributions have funded ranger training, essential field equipment, and transport.

🎓 The Next Generation of Conservationists

Our collaboration with Vanier College continues to thrive! In 2025, six Canadian students – from the Environmental & Wildlife Management and Animal Health programs – traveled to CCF Namibia for hands-on internships. In 2026, CCF Namibia will  welcome five more interns.

 

Acknowledgements:
A special thank you to the Toronto Zoo, the Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation, the Gray Animal Welfare Foundation and Vanier College Dean Alena Perout for their continued support and partnership.

 

CCF Holistic approach

Looking Ahead: Our Mission for 2026

The fight to save the cheetah is evolving. Beyond rehabilitation, our focus for 2026 is coexistence—ensuring humans and wildlife can thrive side-by-side. Your continued support will help us with our conservation initiatives:
  • Expand the Dog Squad: Breeding, training, and placing more Livestock Guarding Dogs to protect farmers’ livelihoods and stop cheetah persecution.
  • Health for All: Continue the mobile vaccination campaigns against rabies to protect people, livestock, and wildlife alike.
  • Combat Illegal Trade: Ramping up regional responses to the illegal wildlife trade and human-wildlife conflict.
  • A New Hub for Hope: Operationalizing the Education & Training Complex for the Horn of Africa to train rangers, teachers, village facilitators and community leaders.
  • Science-Based Survival: Continuing vital research on habitat restoration and biodiversity to ensure a healthy ecosystem for the cheetah.

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With less than 7,500 cheetahs remaining in the wild – and the illegal pet trade increasing – cheetahs are now listed as “Vulnerable” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

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