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Spots of hope: Some good news for South Africa’s cheetahs
by Tony Carnie on 28 September 2020
Cheetahs have vanished from 90% of their historical range in Africa.
A metapopulation project in South Africa has almost doubled the population of cheetahs in this project in less than nine years.
The program works by nurturing several populations of the cat in mostly private game reserves, and swapping cheetahs between these sites to boost the gene pool.
South Africa is now the only country in the world with a significantly increasing population of wild cheetahs, and has begun translocating the cats beyond its borders.
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