wildlife conservation society wcs Reintroduced Cheetah has her first litter of cubs!

Genetic introductions are necessary due to lack of enough secure, free-roaming habitat as a result of our ever-growing human population. This requires protected areas to be fenced - to protect species from anthropogenic conflict. Human-mediated gene flow is therefore necessary in order to ensure a healthy population of wildlife species.

Due to the unavoidable fragmentation of South Africa’s Cheetah population and inhibition of gene flow, a metapopulation approach has been taken in order to protect the integrity of Southern Africa’s wild Cheetah populations. This involves moving individuals from one population of a species to another, in order to strengthen and diversify the gene pool.

Manyoni Private Game Reserve introduced a female Cheetah in April 2018 for that purpose.The Wildlife ACT team has been monitoring her in order to evaluate the success of her reintroduction. She has jokingly been dubbed by the monitors as “Umlingo” (meaning “magician”) or Houdini due to her knack for eluding our attempts to monitor her and then appear at the most unexpected moments. Her most unexpected moment came recently in the form of four tiny (approximately 2 month old) Cheetah cubs!

The signal from her tracking collar was strong, so we were able to successfully locate her, but we did not expect to see her accompanied by cubs. It was the moment we had all be waiting for; our newly-introduced female Cheetah has had her first litter, ultimately marking a success of this reintroduction.

Learn more about our Cheetah Conservation work: http://bit.ly/2WBF7xe

wildlife conservation society wcs Reintroduced Cheetah has her first litter of cubs!
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