Other activities include cheetah husbandry and of course, cleaning of pens, and helping out in the garden. I personally fell in love with all of them but, I especially loved Kiri, Lady, Karibib and Taya with puppy Ray. There are so many activities which included feeding the livestock guarding dogs, they are amazing and huge dogs. I have also acquired global positioning system (GPS) and geographic information system (GIS) skills during the course of my stay here.

These tools help us to ensure that cheetahs and other wildlife have safe places to live.Īt school I did so much theory, and CCF was a chance for me to apply all that I have been taught in school practically. I also participated in game counts on the reserve and learned that game counts are a tool to monitor the populations of the different species on CCF’s reserve so we can analyse the data and determine how healthy the ecosystem and biodiversity are. I was a part of the team that is using camera traps to identify the animal species we have on the CCF reserve, and I learned that camera traps are a good way to assess the biodiversity of an area. Honours degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Namibia in 2016, and therefore I was interning in the ecology department, where I was engaged in a lot of departmental fieldwork. CCF is a place with so much to learn about, so much to explore, so many animals and plants to see and study, and a lot of interesting things one can do research on, be it for an undergraduate degree, masters or PHD.

I arrived at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) on the 1st of December 2016.

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