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Regional Conservation Strategies have been completed for three regions and National Action Plans developed for 17 countries. These are available for download through the ‘Strategies and Action Plans’ tab.
Working together to make space for Cheetah and African Wild Dogs
The Africa Range-Wide Cheetah Conservation Initiative (CCI) works to improve the status of cheetah and reverse declines in their populations. We will achieve our goal by delivering impacts through three pathways that are essential to successful, sustainable, and landscape-scale conservation of cheetah:
Corridors, Communities and Capacity.
Corridors, Communities and Capacity.
Our Key Programs
CORRIDORS
To improve wildlife corridors in order to secure and restore connectivity for cheetah and their prey across seven cheetah landscapes. To support the development of legislative and regulatory frameworks that promote wildlife corridors and transboundary populations.
COMMUNITY
To develop and implement new community-based initiatives to reduce conflict and improve wildlife-based livelihood approaches to foster coexistence with cheetah. To improve community capacity for wildlife stewardship.
CAPACITY
To train a new generation of African leaders in cheetah conservation; to train and mentor government-based National Carnivore Coordinators. To improve scientific knowledge and understanding of cheetah, their ecosystems and their relationships with people.
Our Projects
Country – Tanzania The project is a collaboration between the CCI and Kope Lion to promote human-carnivore coexistence within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA)…
Country – Benin In partnership with Panthera and APN, the CCI supervises the biannual camera trap monitoring of cheetah and leopard in the Pendjari…
Country – Kenya Initiation of this project has been delayed while the COVID-19 pandemic remained unchallenged, but is due to get underway in 2022…
Country – Ethiopia Little is known of the Northeast African subspecies of cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii, in its wild and natural environment, and this…
Country – Zimbabwe The Sebungwe region (~17,000 km2) in northern Zimbabwe is a vast, rugged landscape of great beauty which forms the eastern most “arm”…
Country – Zimbabwe Working through key partners African Wildlife Conservation Fund (AWCF), the CCI helps to support the 3,500km2 Savé Valley Conservancy (SVC) in the…
Country – Angola At 22,610km2 Luengue Luiana National Park in south-eastern Angola is a key part of the KAZA TFCA, and is home to a…
Country – Benin & Niger The CCI worked with local communities to understand their attitudes towards the protected areas, and to develop a regional action…
Country – Zimbabwe The Sengwe-Tshipise Corridor (STC) is an integral part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) and the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area…
Country – Zambia Working with partners Panthera, Peace Parks Foundation and The Sustainable Wildlife Management Program (FAO/CIFOR), CCI is working to support four chiefdoms in…
Country – Tanzania The Serengeti Cheetah Project (SCP) is the world’s longest running scientific project on wild cheetah and has maintained a comprehensive database…
The Lake Natron-Nguruman Area: Protecting Key Biodiversity Areas for Sustainable Trans-Boundary Management of Rangelands and Water-Catchment in Tanzania and Kenya Country – Kenya & Tanzania…
Country – Benin & Niger In order to better understand the role of IWT in driving illegal hunting of big cats, the CCI initiated a…
Country – Angola As a first step to support the creation of the Liuwa-Mussuma TFCA, our team is conducting a baseline survey on both the…
Regional Conservation Strategies & National Plans
Regional Conservation Strategies have been completed for three regions and National Action Plans developed for 17 countries. Click on the map to the right, or the links below to access the plans.
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