LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–December 27, 2016
In an overpopulated world that leads to Global Warming and mass extinctions, the Cheetah is trouble of being added to the long list of species that have been crowded out of the right to coexist with humanity. A sad story this morning about the trouble the Cheetah faces.
The report estimates that there are just 7,100 of the world’s fastest mammals now left in the wild.
Cheetahs are in trouble because they range far beyond protected areas and are coming increasingly into conflict with humans.
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In Zimbabwe, the cheetah population has fallen from around 1,200 to just 170 animals in 16 years, with the main cause being major changes in land tenure.
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Another of the big concerns about cheetahs has been the illegal trafficking of cubs, fuelled by demand from the Gulf states, as reported by the BBC earlier this year.
The young cats can fetch up to $10,000 on the black market. According to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, some 1,200 cheetah cubs are known to have been trafficked out of Africa over the past 10 years but around 85% of them died during the journey.
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“We must think bigger, conserving across the mosaic of protected and unprotected landscapes that these far-reaching cats inhabit, if we are to avert the otherwise certain loss of the cheetah forever.”
The African Lion and the Elephant are a couple more of the many species that aren’t far behind the Cheetah.
Update: The Leopard below that Trump’s kids killed, are also in trouble in some parts of the world.
Maybe we can hope that 2017 will be the year that humans understand that we live on a finite planet and that other species who have been here a lot longer than we have, have a right to share the planet with us.
Source: http://dailykos.com
