Monthly Archives: January 2012

A NEW CHEETAH RESEARCH

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A New Cheetah Research

Dr. Elena Elena Chelysheva, Russian zool­o­gist, received affil­i­a­tion with KWS and her three year research per­mit from the Ministry of Education to con­duct her long-term research. In 2012, Elena will head the Kenya “Meru-Mara Cheetah Project” aims to eval­u­ate Cheetah pop­u­la­tion sta­tus in regions with dif­fer­ent types of anthro­pogenic influ­ence (Masai Mara National Reserve ver­sus Meru Conservation Area). Elena will work with other car­ni­vore pro­grammes in the two regions to iden­tify chee­tahs and con­duct sur­vey of social structure.

Community Meetings

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For the past six years ACK has been mon­i­tor­ing the chee­tah and the ecosys­tem in the Salama area. Results from the data col­lected are entered into a series of data bases and each year we run pre­lim­i­nary analy­sis of the data. In our upcom­ing newslet­ters and annual reports we are proud to say that we are now able to look at some of the trends in this data. One of the most chal­leng­ing issues for the staff on the ground is in explain­ing the impor­tance of col­lect­ing the data.