Come to this free event featuring Dr. Laurie Marker, research scientist and conservation biologist recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on the cheetah. As Founder and Executive Director of Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), Dr. Marker has pioneered research, established conservation models and created cooperative alliances on behalf of the cheetah that had not previously existed.
The Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) is the global leader in research and conservation of cheetahs. Founded in Namibia in 1990, CCF is dedicated to saving the cheetah in the wild. Cheetahs used to thrive in numbers of over 100,000 over a range that stretched across most of Africa through Asia; today there are less than 7,500 remaining, occupying only 9% of their natural range. The cheetah is Africa’s most endangered big cat. Namibia, with an estimated 2,000 wild cheetahs, has approximately a quarter of the remaining cheetahs.