Friends of Conservation

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Friends of Conservation
Kensington Charity Centre
Charles House
375 Kensington High St
London W14 8QH
Tel: 020 7603 5024
Email: focinfo@aol.com

Conservation Issue

Despite being recognised as one of nature’s most beautiful and compelling animals, the cheetahs plight has gone from simply alarming to extremely critical in the space of one human lifetime. The Asiatic Cheetah was estimated to number over 200 during the 1970s, current estimates by Iranian biologists put the number at 50 to 100 in 1998.

FOC has recently become the UK fundraising arm of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in their efforts to conserve cheetahs and their habitat. The CCF was founded in 1990 by Dr Laurie Marker and is dedicated to saving the

Running cheetah. Image courtesy: Robert Thomson

cheetah. The CCF has been working in Namibia and conducted extensive research into the environment and physiology of the cheetah. To read more about CCF’s work in Namibia, please click here.

If you would like to support CCF’s work in Iran, please click here.

Wildlife

Cheetah

The world's fastest land animal, the cheetah, is the most unique and specialized member of the cat family and can reach speeds of 70 mph. However, the sleek and long-legged cheetah is losing its race for survival. Once a common animal found on five continents, the cheetah is now an endangered species. The main threats to the cheetah are habitat destruction, loss of prey species and direct killing by humans.