This is a South African cheetah, and it’s in trouble

Mongabay
Oct 11, 2026, 4:19 pm56 ptsTrending
When researchers mapped almost 100,000 square kilometers of South Africa, or nearly 40,000 square miles, they only found 83 mature adults. They called their project the Free-Roaming Cheetah Census, and it’s the most comprehensive survey of cheetahs ever conducted in the region. The cheetahs that inhabit the…

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