Cheetah Conservation Botswana holds a session in the Kalahari desert as part of a new cheetah school set up to inform villages about the declining species. Over the past century, the world’s cheetah population has declined by 90%, and less than 7,000 currently exist in Africa. One of the highest remaining cheetah populations is in Botswana, but these cheetahs live outside protected areas, in farmland regions where they come into conflict with people.

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