Keeping the Wild, Wild with Dr. Laurie Marker

Hear from world renowned conservation scientist and founder of Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) about the worldwide effort to save the cheetah, while supporting human communities that live in the same range. For over 45 years, Dr. Laurie Marker, one of the world’s leading experts on cheetahs, has pioneered research, established conservation models and created cooperative alliances that never before existed. CCF has grown into a world-class cheetah research, education and conservation institution that is now the longest-running and most successful cheetah conservation program in the world. Her work has led her to partner and support many countries throughout Africa to save the cheetah. And now it expands even further including combating the illegal wildlife trade in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East; and working to reintroduce the cheetah with the Indian government where it has been extinct for 70 years. Come learn how saving the cheetah and working with local people is saving a species.