ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 12月5日 13時58分
Image © Frans Lanting. Today is International Cheetah Day. Chris Eckstrom and I have long worked to help publicize the plight of the cheetah, one of the most endangered of all the world's big cats. We have documented cheetahs in many countries, from Kenya and Tanzania to Botswana and Namibia--including my exclusive coverage in Iran, home to the last of the Asiatic cheetahs, which was published in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic.
In honor of the cheetahs, we would like to salute a number of organizations and individuals who are doing exemplary work to help safeguard a future for them, including the Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN) of Los Altos, California. WCN supports the work of two important conservationists in southern Africa: Dr. Laurie Marker and her Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), and Rebecca Klein and her Cheetah Conservation Botswana project (CCB). Both work to preserve cheetah populations through scientific research, community outreach and education, and working with rural communities to promote coexistence with predator species. Chris and I are honored to serve as Global Ambassadors for the Cheetah Conservation Fund.
For the recent National Geographic cheetahs story, Chris and I also covered the work of Dr. Sarah Durant, who conducts the longest running study of cheetahs in the wild through her Serengeti Cheetah Project in Tanzania. Over the course of the past 27 years, the Serengeti Cheetah Project's research has told us much of what we know about wild cheetahs--including the importance of individual "supermoms" in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, who successfully raise a majority of cubs to maturity and may be a key to the survival of the species.
All of these passionate individuals and their organizations are remarkable, and we encourage you to learn more about them, and support their efforts, as we do. The future of cheetahs will not be the same without them.
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