In
the mid 1990s, The Zambezi Society helped Zimbabwe's Department of National
Parks to move 15 wild cheetah from farms elsewhere in the country, where they
were becoming a nuisance to cattle, into the Matusadona National Park on the
shores of Lake Kariba. This was an experiment, as there are no other known attempts
of wild-to-wild cheetah reintroduction. Several years later, a breeding population
of cheetah is now commonly seen in the Park and research indicates that the
experiment has been a success. Here, researcher Colleen Zank and Zambezi Society
Director, Dick Pitman attend to an immobilised cheetah. This is one of a number
of single species conservation projects which the Zambezi Society has undertaken.
