Monthly Archives: November 2016
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These brothers, part of a hunting coalition of three, I photographed in Zululand three years ago. The specific reserve is one of the few places cheetah are safe in this consumptive era we live in – unless someone in the east finds their spotted skin to be a historic cure-all for declining vision caused by too much screen-time. I’ve recently returned from India, and I believe a warning to authorities in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana is the fact that habitat loss and hunting saw the Asiatic cheetah become extinct in India 60 years ago. Apart from a few reported to be still alive in arid eastern Iran, these are the only remaining populations of wild Asiatic cheetah. The cheetah was reportedly a favorite animal of the Mughal emperor Akbar, who reportedly had an army of 1,000 cheetahs which accompanied him on his hunting expeditions. In 2010 the Indian government spoke about reintroducing cheetah, as it is apparently the only animal to have gone extinct in India. However with the last three shot dead in 1947 by a Maharajah (who shot over 1000), and previous attempts at reintroduction literally having been shot down, enthusiasm for the project seems to have died. It seems some Arab sheiks are also fond of the cheetah; cubs are today being stolen from the wild to be kept as pets in lavish air conditioned households in the desert. from ’other wild. A torch-bearer for cheetah throughout her life has been Namibia’s Laurie Marker-Kraus. Information about cheetah and her work can be found below. http://cheetah.org/
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