Our work to combat habitat loss #KeeptheWildWild

Our work to combat habitat loss is critically important for the cheetah. We can do what we can to prevent human-wildlife conflict and shut down the illegal wildlife trade, but these animals need a healthy, thriving ecosystem to live in, with abundant prey. With the human population growing, and land usage for farming increasing, available land for cheetahs is in decline and habitat loss is one of the primary threats to wild cheetahs. To Keep the Wild, Wild, we need to restore degraded habitats and work with local landowners to help them to manage their land in a wildlife friendly way.

Conservancies

CCF has been a participant in Namibia’s innovative Conservancy movement since its inception. Conservancies are a wildlife management structure that allows the local populace within a land management area to manage and reap the economic benefit of the wildlife treasures located there. Because people in the conservancies “own” the wildlife, they are far more interested in protecting it, and areas governed by conservancies tend to be far more resistant to outside influence from poachers. CCF has been working with the local farmers and populations that surround the Waterberg Plateau, creating a conservancy and economic development area known as the Greater Waterberg Landscape. CCF manages a 142,483-acre which is part of The Greater Waterberg Landscape. As the Conservancy movement decreases poaching and encourages sustainable land use, it helps to reduce poaching of cubs for the illegal wildlife trade as well as creating healthy, thriving habitats for wild cheetahs to live in.