by ACF | Sep 7, 2022 | Big Cats, Wildlife News
South African ungulates, or hooved mammals, react differently to different species of predators. Experiments by a research team have demonstrated that the behavioural responses of ungulates to large predators can shape ecosystem structure and function. Most such...
by ACF | Aug 9, 2020 | Big Cats, Conservation Solutions, Wildlife News
The predation of livestock by carnivores, and the retaliatory killing of carnivores as a result, is a major global conservation challenge. Such human-wildlife conflicts are a key driver of large carnivore declines and the costs of coexistence are often...
by ACF | Jun 26, 2020 | Big Cats, Wildlife News
New research published this month indicates that lion populations in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest. The research, a collaboration involving University of Queensland and Griffith University, published in Frontiers in Ecology &...
by ACF | May 10, 2020 | Big Cats, Conservation Threats, Wildlife News
Throughout their range leopards are in rapid decline, having disappeared from North Africa, much of the Middle East and Asia. Declines have been so severe that the species is now considered vulnerable to extinction. No comprehensive estimates of the number of leopards...
by ACF | Aug 2, 2015 | Big Cats, Wildlife News
Cecil the lion is dead, killed illegally in Zimbabwe by Walter Palmer, an American dentist and recreational big-game hunter who paid about $55,000 for the privilege. The details of Cecil’s killing are disturbing — and they’re important for understanding...
by ACF | Jan 29, 2015 | Big Cats
OTJIWARONGO, Namibia (23 Jan. 2015) – Dr. Léart Petrick, a Windhoek eye specialist with a practise focused on serving humans, recently travelled to Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) to perform an operation on a different kind of patient. Khayjay, a...