DID YOU KNOW THAT THE FASTEST ANIMAL ON LAND IS ABOUT TO GO EXTINCT ???T
photo credit: Google The world’s fastest land animal, the cheetah, is sprinting towards extinction, a new study has warned and called for urgent conservation actions to save the big cats. The study, published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, estimated that the cheetah’s population has declined to just 7,100 globally, which are now confined to nine percent of the animal’s historic range. Asiatic cheetah population has been hit hardest, with fewer than 50 individuals remaining in one isolated pocket of Iran, according to the study by the Zoological Society of London, Panthera and Wildlife Conservation Society. Zimbabwe has seen the cheetah’s population fall from 1,200 to a maximum of 170 animals in just 16 years, largely due to pressures on wildlife and their habitat outside of protected areas, said the study. As a result, the researchers urged that the cheetah should be uplisted from “Vulnerable” to “Endangered” on the Inte...