People often consider large protected areas to be the answer to conservation, but this is not true for cheetahs. This critical understanding was confirmed in March when the research team from CCB collaborated with the Central Kalahari Research Group to conduct an unprecedented spoor survey to estimate the number of cheetahs and other carnivore species in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).
The survey found evidence of only eight cheetahs in the CKGR, the second largest game reserve in the world at roughly twice the size of More