Cheetah Conservation Fund Resolutions for 2025

Research Powers Progress

Expand Field Research
A comprehensive understanding of ecosystems is key to effective conservation. CCF’s biodiversity studies – including camera trap monitoring, scavenger surveys, biomass analysis, and comparisons of research and control areas – are uncovering critical insights into the cheetah’s habitat, guiding strategies to restore and protect these vital landscapes.

Strengthen Genetics Research
Understanding genetic diversity is vital for effective conservation. By surveying the wild cheetah population in Namibia and Somaliland and advancing genotyping of local wild cheetahs, CCF is uncovering critical data on genetic degradation to inform strategies for sustaining healthy populations.

Enhance Facilities for Conservation
Well-prepared cheetahs have a greater chance of thriving in the wild. By optimizing the 200-hectare “cheetah camp,” in Namibia, CCF is creating an environment that better supports pre-release candidates and equips them for successful reintroduction.

Education Ensures Understanding

Expand Community Empowerment with Training Programs
Empowering communities is essential to long-term conservation success. Through leadership skill programs and the Future Farmers of Africa initiative, CCF is equipping community leaders and farmers in both Namibia and Somaliland with predator-friendly practices and sustainable land management techniques, fostering coexistence in surrounding communities.

Focus on Somaliland’s Education Center
Education is the cornerstone of creating future conservation champions. By completing the Cheetah Education and Training Complex, funded in large part by the Royal Commission for AlUla, CCF will provide a dedicated space to welcome students and teachers for hands-on conservation learning and meaningful community engagement.

Raise Global Cheetah Conservation Awareness
Awareness is a powerful tool for change. By celebrating key honor days like International Farm Animal Day, International Working Animal Day, and International Cheetah Day, CCF engages communities worldwide with public awareness activities, inspiring collective action to protect and save the cheetah.

Conservation Solutions for All

Expand Livestock Guarding Dog Program
Mitigating human-wildlife conflict is essential for coexistence. By enhancing the Livestock Guarding Dog program with snake aversion training, wellness education, and rural vaccination campaigns, CCF is ensuring healthier, more effective working dogs. Placing additional dogs on farms, including puppies from recent litters (born in January), strengthens efforts to protect livestock and fosters harmony between communities and cheetahs.

Support Wildlife Health and Release
Healthy wildlife populations are critical to conservation success. By providing comprehensive veterinary care for cheetahs, livestock, and African wild dogs, and releasing rehabilitated cheetahs into the wild in conservancies like Erindi, CCF is actively restoring ecosystems while addressing the health needs of both wildlife and community animals.

Promote Sustainable Practices
Sustainable land management is key to preserving ecosystems for both wildlife and people. Through habitat restoration efforts like bush thinning and biomass energy production at the Biomass Technology Demonstration Center, and by collaborating with local farmers on coexistence strategies, CCF is creating healthier landscapes that support biodiversity and livelihoods alike.

Increase Tourism and Engagement
Experiencing conservation in action inspires deeper connections to wildlife. By welcoming more visitors to see cheetah conservation firsthand, CCF fosters greater understanding and support while generating essential funding to sustain its mission.