Cheetah Outreach Trust USA
As the American counterpart of Cheetah Outreach Trust South Africa we are dedicated to aiding, via fundraising, the conservation efforts of Cheetah Outreach Trust South Africa. They work with the Anatolian Shepherd Dog Program to save the free-ranging cheetah and large predators on farmland areas through integrated conservation strategies.
Conservation & Education Initiatives
The efforts to protect the cheetah and other wildlife in South Africa are concentrated in four major focus areas: education, conflict mitigation, advocating for an end to the illegal trade in free-roaming cheetahs, and conducting practical and applicable research on free-roaming cheetah populations and other large predators that occur on farmland within the distribution range.
FOCUS: Livestock Guarding Dog Project
The goal of the project is to mitigate human-wildlife conflict on livestock farms within the current cheetah distribution range. This is accomplished by placing Anatolian livestock guardian dogs on farms to assist farmers in protecting livestock from predators. Such placements are clustered, which accomplishes two goals. First, it creates viable habitat corridors with an increased connection to safe habitats. It also facilitates cross-border migration and safe movement corridors between conservation areas and protected areas. To date, Cheetah Outreach Trust South Africa has facilitated an area of 2,220 square miles that is now considered cheetah and predator-tolerant. The Anatolian livestock guardian puppies that are placed are bred at the Irwin’s Guardian Stud.
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