Through August 31, contributions to CCF will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $400,000, as part of Chewbaaka’s Wild Cheetah Challenge. Honoring Chewbaaka, an orphaned cub that was rescued, this annual matching campaign is a chance to double your support.

Laurie raised Chewbaaka from just a few days old and he became one of CCF’s most beloved cheetah ambassadors. He arrived at CCF in 1995, only 10 days old and seriously ill. He was a fighter and lived to be almost 17 years old. He helped CCF education team show farmers and schoolchildren that cheetahs didn’t need to be feared, making the landscape safer for other cheetahs to be rehabilitated and released. 

Laurie often says: "Khayam, the first cheetah I raised, showed me the problem facing cheetahs, and Chewbaaka showed me the solutions"

Did you know: CCF's Scientists Contributed to Genomic Legacy Study Published in Genome Biology; Ambassador Cheetah Chewbaaka Provides Genome for Sequencing. 

What Your Gift Makes Possible

• Fitting satellite collars on cheetahs about to be released, so field teams can follow their first months back in the wild
• Fuel, tires, and field equipment for the monitoring teams tracking released cheetahs every day across Namibia’s farmlands
• Running camera trap surveys that confirm where wild cheetahs still roam and measure the prey density that sustains them
• Maintaining the Early Warning System that alerts a farmer before a cheetah reaches the fence line, preventing conflict before it starts

The true return on every release is something no facility can replicate: a cheetah living wild, raising the next generation of wild cheetahs.