Cheetah+savannah+s

My animal is the Cheetah, it lives in the African Savanna in the Sub-Saharan Africa. The Cheetah eats gazelles, deer, and impala. The Cheetah also gives a live birth, but most Cheetahs don't make it to adult hood mainly because of the competition for food that other, older carnivores get to before the Cheetah. Other reasons why Cheetahs are so endangered is because they attack livestock and that results in farmers shooting these animals. They are also seen as threats and are seemed to be dangerous animals. To help this endangered animal there is the Cheetah Conservation trust, which helps to protect Cheetahs. It helps to make sure they are taken care of and that they are away from where they could be poached. This is also a bad thing because once the Cheetah is raised to go out into the wild, it cant because they are not adjusted to the wild and they would die. The Cheetah is included in the International Union for Conservation (IUCN). There are also breeding programs that help take care of orphan cheetahs by giving them a home and helping them grow up to be strong. These programs are here because of the slowly declining population of cheetahs, currently there are only 12,400 cheetahs in the world. They are classified as "vulnerable" because they could be extinct if the population trends continue. To help I can try to talk to people about funding.

http://ecological-problems.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-are-cheetahs-endangered.html http://www.dccafrica.co.za/et5-cheetah-conservation.html http://www.defenders.org/cheetah/basic-facts http://www.arkive.org/cheetah/acinonyx-jubatus/ http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/cheetah