Time running out for cheetahs as scientists fear for future of world’s fastest land animal
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A new review of cheetah populations in southern Africa suggests there are far fewer of the animals than previously thought.
By Aristos Georgiou
A new review of cheetah populations has revealed the dire state one of the planet’s most iconic big cats and the world’s fastest land animal that can reach speeds of 70mph, prompting calls by scientists to place the species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of ‘Endangered’ species.
An international team of researc...
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