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.
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.