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From The Times February 24, 2009
Lien de l'article (en anglais)
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5792747.ece
article.wn.com/view/2009/02/24/Spotted_r...s_of_desert_cheetah/
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Rare Saharan Cheetah photographed through Camera Trap Study.
Message from Dr. Laurie Marker:
We were thrilled to see wide coverage of the first photo of a wild cheetah in Algeria through camera-trapping research on BBC News and other international media. This is so exciting, particularly because we are so very proud of Farid Belbachir, who is running the field survey, for his diligent efforts in this important survey in the Parc National de l'Ahaggar (OPNA).
In 2005, Farid was selected as the lead Algerian biologist by the Sahel Sahara Interest Group (SSIG) for field training at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) headquarters in Namibia to learn many of the field techniques he is now putting into practice in his home country of Algeria, to assist this critically endangered sub-species of cheetah. Through Farid's dedication, he helped to organize three collaborative field surveys in Algeria in cooperation with OPNA, the Cat Specialist Group, the Cheetah Conservation Fund, the Zoological Society of London and the Sahara Conservation Fund, and Groupe OGRAN. From this solidly laid base of cooperation, officials and communities of the Parc National de l'Ahaggar have embraced the cheetah into the cultural and faunal aspects of this amazing desert reserve.
CCF is a leader in field methods for conservation of the world's cheetahs and has been training cheetah range country nationals in these methodologies. Our next international training course will take place in June and again in November. Please contact
www.cheetah.org
for more information about these courses as well as ways people can help to save the cheetah.
To view coverage click on the links below:
BBC:
newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7905986.stm
- includes radio interview with Farid Belbachir and Dr. Sarah Durant of the ZSL.
On the edge of extinction, desert-dwelling cheetah photographed ...
Mongabay.com - USA
With only 250 individuals left the Saharan Cheetah is on the brink of extinction. Little-studied, this imperiled subspecies has been photographed for the ...
