Cheetah Conservation in Botwana

Promoting Coexistence with Cheetahs

When you support Cheetah Conservation Botswana (CCB), you help preserve the nation’s cheetah population through scientific research, community outreach and environmental education and their community work to promote coexistence with Botswana’s rich diversity of carnivore species.

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Protecting cheetahs through research and coexistence.

CCB has been working alongside the Botswana Government since 2003 to help facilitate coexistence between rural communities and carnivore species.

Cheetahs are a flagship species for the delicate Kalahari ecosystem and its rich biodiversity.

Botswana is a remaining stronghold for cheetahs, providing a home for approximately 30% of earth’s remaining 7,100 cheetahs.

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A love for cheetahs and the communities that live alongside them.

The CCB team consists of a diverse array of people committed to conserving wildlife and empowering local communities in Botswana.

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Cheetahs are a flagship species for the delicate Kalahari ecosystem and its rich biodiversity.

Botswana is a remaining stronghold for cheetahs, providing a home for approximately 30% of earth’s remaining 7,100 cheetahs.

Find out more

A love for cheetahs and the communities that live alongside them.

The CCB team consists of a diverse array of people committed to conserving wildlife and empowering local communities in Botswana.

Find out more

The cheetah’s lean build gives it the speed and agility that make it famous. However, this rangy physique also means that the cheetah struggles to live alongside bigger cats such as lions in reserves and national parks—the cheetah is too small to compete.

Cheetahs therefore live mostly on non-protected land surrounded by farmers and rural communities. Sharing this land is difficult because farmers perceive cheetahs to be a threat. Human-wildlife conflict is largely responsible for the loss of 90% of the cheetah population (around 90,000 individual cheetahs) during just one century.

With a shared passion for the environment, a love of the bush and a drive to help people that live alongside wildlife, CCB is a tight-knit team that is working to create meaningful change for Botswana’s wildlife and people.

With a focus on empowering locals to mitigate human-wildlife conflicts and a passion for practical and effective programs, CCB has been able to help thousands of Botswana live peacefully with wildlife.

Conservation Solutions

Reducing Conflict

Scientific Research

Expanding Education

Boosting Local Economies

Honoring Culture

Livestock Guarding Dogs

To reduce conflict between cheetahs and livestock, CCB trains a local breed of Tswana livestock guarding dogs to protect livestock from threats. With a network of over 100 participating farmers, CCB trains puppies and provides free veterinary care and information. CCB continues to monitor all active dogs in the program to assess the effectiveness of this intervention.

Biodiversity in Non-protected Areas

A great deal of biological research has been conducted in protected areas where wildlife roams free and without persecution, but there has been far less research held on farmlands, where the real threat to cheetah survival exists. CCB’s research mainly centers around human-wildlife conflict and finding out how cheetahs are hunting, to ensure that cheetahs are protected with the most useful and evidence-based approaches.

Bush Camps

CCB’s education department conducts four-day educational camps, where children and adult groups are immersed in experiential learning and come to appreciate Botswana’s environment and carnivores. At CCB bush camps, participants are exposed to a range of important environmental ideas through lectures, bush walks, activities, and fun games.

Farming for Conservation

Many farmers who share the land with cheetahs often consider these animals as pests due to the perceived threat that they pose to their livestock. Through CCB’s “Farming for Conservation” program, CCB is trying to help farmers implement inexpensive carnivore control methods to curb losses and improve productivity, thereby improving livelihoods.

Communities for Conservation

Through CCB’s community participatory planning processes, they ensure communities’ social needs are addressed, and a sense of pride for the San’s natural and cultural resources is celebrated, through traditional dances or murals painted at local schools. These partnerships allow communities to be supported and improve their ability to manage their natural resource base.

Reducing Conflict

Communities for Conservation

Make an impact for Cheetahs

When you get involved, donate, or spread the word on social media, you are truly making a better world for cheetahs and the communities that live near them. Here are a few ways you can help:

Connect with Cheetah Conservation Botswana on social media to learn more about their work and be a voice for these cats.

Visit CCB’s website and sign up for their newsletter to deepen your connection with conservation.

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Donate to support CCB’s work protecting cheetahs. Through our donation model, 100% of your donation goes to field with zero taken for overhead or administration.

Botswana has an incredibly important role to play in cheetah conservation globally. It is one of the last and best hopes for the preservation of our earth’s declining cheetah population.

Rebecca Klein

Photography Credits: Eric Ash, Cheetah Conservation Botswana, Arnel DeLeon, Ken and Michelle Dyball, Jane Horgan, Susan McConnell, Jon McCormack, Tom Stahl

Cheetah Conservation Botswana

Promoting Coexistence with Cheetahs

Protecting cheetahs through research and coexistence.

Cheetahs are a flagship species for the delicate Kalahari ecosystem and its rich biodiversity.

A love for cheetahs and the communities that live alongside them.

Cheetahs are a flagship species for the delicate Kalahari ecosystem and its rich biodiversity.

A love for cheetahs and the communities that live alongside them.

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