Animal picture of the day: tracking cheetahs in Namibia
Jeremy Hancemongabay.com
June 04, 2012
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Cheetahs fitted with collars. Photo by: N/a'an ku se Research Project. Click to enlarge.
The N/a’an ku se Carnivore Conservation Research Project in Namibia has recently been tracking a male cheetah named Boris. After caught hunting in a game farm, Boris was captured, tagged with a radio collar for GPS tracking, and released back into the wild.
The N/a’an ku se Carnivore Conservation Research Project, which also studies leopards and brown hyena in Namibia, is apart of Colchester Zoo's Action for the Wild program, which supports numerous conservation projects around the world, from lemurs in Madagascar to hornbills in Thailand to an imperiled moth in the UK.
The N/a’an ku se Carnivore Conservation Research Project plans to collar three more cheetahs for research. The group is also working on rebuilding cheetah populations in some protected areas.
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Fitting tracking collar onto wild cheetah. Photo by: N/a'an ku se Research Project.
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Cheetah release. Photo by: N/a'an ku se Research Project.
