Sponsor a cheetah

The Cheetah Enclosure – 2

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.

Klein

Klein was born in May 2000 and arrived at CCF with his two siblings, Chanel and Calvin, when they were one year old. Their mother was shot on a game farm near Mangeti (north of Grootfontein). Her skin was used to capture them. It took three weeks before CCF was called to collect them. All were in poor condition and required intensive treatment. Klein underwent a 24-hour sedation to help him stop vomiting and re-hydrate him. Stress and an associated bacterial infection resulted in a severely inflamed stomach lining, vomiting, and diarrhoea. He recovered completely. However, Calvin died of a chest cavity infection in 2002.

Merlot

Merlot was born in January 2000 and arrived at CCF in August 2001. Merlot was caught on a game farm outside Okahandja about nine months before coming to CCF. He was with his sister Shiraz, and their mother Chardonnay. Chardonnay had a serious foot injury, cause unknown, that remained untreated until her arrival at CCF. The infection healed, but she still had a limp on her right hind foot. Chardonnay could not be released and due to further health problems, she was euthanised in 2003.

Cruise

Cruise and his brother Kilmer were born in March 1997, and arrived at CCF in September 1998. After having spent about five months in a trap cage, they were both given to a private owner by a farmer when they were about 14 months old. The owner failed to get the necessary permits to keep them, and they were confiscated in September 1998 by the Ministry of Environment & Tourism who immediately gave Kilmer and Cruise to CCF. New legislation is aimed at improving the holding conditions of captive carnivores in Namibia and permits are required.

Solo

Solo was born in February 2000, and arrived at CCF in January 2001. She was caught on a sheep farm south of Windhoek with her siblings when she was estimated at 13 months old. What happened to her mother is unknown. In 2001, her sister and brother went to White Oak Conservation Centre in Florida, USA.
Female cheetahs teach their young vital survival skills, including hunting. Without their mother for up to 18 to 22 months, they do not learn these survival skills and
are unable to live as wild cheetahs.

Nina

Nina was born in January 2000, and she arrived for the first time in August 2000 with her brother Josie when they were 8 months old. They arrived with their mother, whose hind foot had been badly injured by a gin trap. After five months of treatment, all three were re-released. Sadly, the mother’s radio collar showed no movement a few weeks after they were released. Research staff tracked the collar on foot, only to find that the collared cheetah had died. The cause of death was unknown, as vultures had already eaten a lot of the carcass. Both Nina and Josie were caught on neighbour Harry Schneider-Waterberg’s farm. They were very hungry, but otherwise healthy.

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