Cheetah Conservation
For thousands of years, cheetahs thrived across Namibia’s sweeping savannas, perfectly adapted to life in the open plains. Built for speed and teamwork, they hunted antelope and other grazers with unmatched efficiency. But their survival is now threatened. Invasive bush has spread relentlessly, choking out the grasses that antelope depend on and closing off the wide-open spaces cheetahs need to run and hunt. What was once a landscape of endless horizons is becoming a tangled thicket, shrinking both the food supply and the habitat that sustains the cheetah.
There is hope. By clearing this invasive bush and transforming it into biochar, we can restore balance to the land. The grasses return, grazing animals rebound, and the savannas reopen—giving cheetahs the space they need to survive. At the same time, the biochar produced helps capture carbon and enrich the soil, creating both an environmental and community benefit. What threatens the cheetah can, in fact, become the very key to their survival.
Protect Cheetahs
In the last 100 years, the world has lost 90% of the wild cheetah population. Today, one-third of wild cheetahs live in southern Africa. CCF is working across Africa to save the species throughout its range.