Sponsor a cheetah

The Cheetah Enclosure – 1

Choose a resident cheetah to sponsor

Please become a conservation partner and assist us by covering part or all of the annual costs for caring for these non-releasable cheetahs. Each cheetah costs CCF an estimated £2,500 a year in care. These costs include food, veterinary care and pen maintenance.

If you sponsor the cost of the care of a CCF non-releasable cheetah (of your choice!) for £100 or more, you will receive a personal letter of thanks and a CCF sticker. If you sponsor a cheetah at any level, you'll receive a link to a special web page containing up to date news from Namibia including the latest on how our resident cheetahs are doing.

In addition, you can create your own personalised Sponsorship Certificate to print out, and download a special photo poster of your cheetah, taken from the official cheetah ID book in Namibia. Each JPEG poster file is up to 1MB in size and up to 250mm across, and shows pictures of the cheetah, highlighting distinguishing markings for identification.

To create a Sponsorship Certificate, download a poster, or access the latest cheetah news from Namibia, be sure to click ‘Return to Merchant’ after you have completed your PayPal transaction, or you will not see our ‘Thank You’ page, which contains the information required.

If you sponsor a cheetah for a whole year (£2,500) you will receive special recognition at our headquarters in Namibia.

Pick a cheetah - there are six different pages:

Sponsoring is simple! Just click the 'Sponsor Me' button under any cheetah's story. You will be taken to a PayPal secure payment page, where you can choose how much you want to sponsor your cheetah for. Once you've sponsored one cheetah, you can come back and sponsor another one if you wish. Here are six of our resident cheetahs. See the other pages for more.

Blondi

My sister Dusty and I were born in May 2000, and we arrived at CCF in August 2000, when we were just three months old. We lost our parents and were all alone. Kind Dr. Ulf Tubbesing, a Windhoek veterinarian, brought us to our new home at CCF.

Female cheetahs teach their young vital survival skills, including hunting. Without their mother they lack these survival skills and are unable to live as wild cheetahs.

Leia

I was born in March 1996, and arrived at CCF in March 1997 as a poor starving orphan - but I'm a princess really. A farm worker killed my mother, even though she never killed any livestock. My sister and I moved to the next farm where we tried to live by catching goats near the homestead, but they were just too fast for us because we were so weak and couldn't catch them. The farmer, defending his livestock, shot my sister dead. But then he realised that I was dying from starvation. He called CCF immediately to set a trap cage, and that's how I came to CCF and survived.

Josie

I was born in January 2000, and I came to CCF for the first time in August 2000 with my sister Nina, when we were 8 months old. We arrived with our mother, whose hind foot had been badly injured by a gin trap. After five months of treatment, all three of us were re-released. But then suddenly, a few weeks later, our mother died - we don't know why. Both my sister and I were caught on Harry Schneider-Waterberg's farm near CCF. We were both very sad and very hungry, but otherwise OK.

Dusty

My sister Blondi and I have lived at CCF since August 2000, when we were three months old and we lost our mummy and daddy. We were brought to our new home by Dr. Ulf Tubbesing from Windhoek.

Gremlin

I was born in August 2000, and I arrived to CCF in October of 2000 with my sister Gremlin Girl when we were just eight weeks old. We lost our parents on a farm near Hochveld. Both of us got our faces really badly scratched (Girl's face needed stitching) in a trap cage and we were very scruffy looking, which is how we got our names. In 2001, Gremlin Girl went to the White Oak Conservation Centre in Florida. At the same time, I met Josie. Both of us spent time on loan to a guest farm in Namibia, which was OK. But in October 2002, we were returned to CCF, as the farmer was unwilling to meet the new requirements for holding large carnivores.

Sandy

I came to CCF in September 2000 when I was just eight weeks old with my two brothers. Our mother was shot in a game camp and we were captured at the age of four weeks. My brothers went to the White Oak Conservation Centre in Florida in 2001.

Game farmers regard cheetah that catch "their" game as a threat, even though game are a cheetah's natural prey. In CCF's initial farm survey, 19% of farmers interviewed were game farmers and these farmers were responsible for 45% of the reported cheetah 'removals.'

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