Namibia’s cheetah dogs

The Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) center in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, founded by US doctor Laurie Marker, started breeding Anatolian livestock dogs to promote cheetah-friendly farming after some 10,000 big cats - the current total worldwide population - were killed or moved off farms in the 1980s. Up to 1,000 cheetahs were being killed a year, mostly by farmers who saw them as livestock killers.

But the use of dogs has slashed losses for sheep and goat farmers and led to less retaliation against the vulnerable cheetah.

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