About Us - Cheetah Conservation Initiative

The Cheetah Conservation Initiative

OUR VISION

Our vision is a world where cheetah populations thrive across large, connected landscapes, and successfully coexist with, and are valued by, local communities.

The Africa Range-Wide Cheetah Conservation Initiative evolved from the Range Wide Conservation Program for Cheetah and African Wild Dogs (RWCP) which was initiated in 2007. The program depends on coordinated frameworks for conservation action, including, to date, three Regional Conservation Strategies and 17 National Conservation Action Plans, which encompass >90% of known cheetah range and >85% of known wild dog range.

OUR OVERALL GOAL

To improve the conservation status of cheetah and reverse declines in their populations in Africa

OVERARCHING IMPACT GOALS

To improve the conservation status of cheetah populations in seven major transboundary cheetah landscapes.

To help reverse the decline in cheetah populations through restoration of cheetah into at least one ecosystem from which they have previously been extirpated.

To facilitate a larger, more diverse stakeholders’ network at local, regional and international levels, and to play an international leadership and coordination role to increase overall impact for cheetah conservation.

CORRIDOR GOALS

To create, maintain and/or strengthen connectivity for cheetah across cheetah landscapes, especially outside protected areas, including through land use planning and wildlife stewardship.

To tangibly support the development of legislative and regulatory frameworks that promote wildlife corridors and transboundary populations.

COMMUNITIES GOALS

To foster coexistence between communities and cheetahs including via human-wildlife conflict (HWC) mitigation and the development and implementation of effective, sustainable wildlife-based livelihood approaches in priority areas.

CAPACITY GOALS

To increase capacity within 14 government wildlife authorities of cheetah range states to support cheetah conservation action at a national level.

To strengthen national scientific capacity for large carnivore conservation within range states, including developing a new generation of African leaders in cheetah conservation.

To increase the evidence base for cheetah conservation in order to deliver efficient and effective conservation action.

To leverage additional international support and attention for cheetah conservation across and beyond the African continent.

Improving the conservation status of cheetah and reversing declines in their populations in Africa

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The (Africa Range-Wide) Cheetah Conservation Initiative (CCI) is funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation with support from the Zoological Society of London, and endorsed by the IUCN Cat and Canid Specialist Groups. The CCI works with a wide range of governments and partners across all African countries where cheetah reside.