Somaliland Wildlife Sanctuary
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TaiwanICDF extends collaboration with Cheetah Conservation Fund
In January 2023, the TaiwanICDF will start to recruit volunteers with specialties, such as electrical engineering and civil engineering to serve in Somaliland, to help improve the facilities and construction for the wildlife, and to perform a land survey for a Somaliland’s new national park.
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Cheetah Rescue and Conservation Centre (CRCC) in Geed Deeble Somaliland. This state-of-the-art sanctuary is nearing the stage of completion that will allow us to move the cheetahs from the Safe Houses into new, naturalistic, and more spacious enclosures.
The CRCC is specifically designed to protect and preserve the cheetah population in the region. The fenced enclosures provide a safe and secure environment for the cheetahs to roam, while also allowing for close monitoring and care from our dedicated team of animal experts.
The CRCC is specifically designed to protect and preserve the cheetah population in the region. The fenced enclosures provide a safe and secure environment for the cheetahs to roam, while also allowing for close monitoring and care from our dedicated team of animal experts.
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More than 50 cheetahs rescued from the illegal wildlife trade have been relocated to a compound in Somaliland, East Africa, amid a report that reveals global demand for exotic pets remains high.
Two siblings — Cizi and Bagheer — brought into the Cheetah Conservation Fund as cubs were rescued by the Somaliland government in 2020 and are among the first to bed down in the Somaliland Cheetah Rescue and Conservation Centre at Geed-Deeble.
The government project, the result of a long-standing partnership with the Cheetah Conservation Fund, is one of the first in East Africa.
The siblings have been joined by 50 other cubs at the 800-hectare site, all rescued from the illegal pet trade in recent months.
A further 37 cheetahs — rescued from traffickers and that are currently in safe houses — will join the compound, that will double as a research and training centre, an hour or so outside of Hargeisa.
“We are exceptionally pleased with the results of the move,” said Dr Laurie Marker, founder and executive director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund.
“The cubs we moved stayed in their large management enclosures for a day or two to acclimatise them to their new area.
“Then their keepers watched happily as they were released into their spacious enclosures and [they] have since settled in very well.”
Cheetahs, listed as an Appendix 1 species under the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species, are mostly removed from the wild in the Horn of Africa to supply the illegal pet trade.
Since 2011, the Cheetah Conservation Fund has been assisting the government of Somaliland in caring for cheetahs intercepted from traffickers.
A recent report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit NGO that monitors revenue streams for terrorism and extremism, found illegal wildlife trafficking was experiencing a post-pandemic resurgence.
The illegal trade in animals and their body parts has grown to an estimated annual value of up to $23 billion, devastating animal populations and driving species such as the elephant, rhinoceros and cheetah towards extinction.
