ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
The global decline of cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and what it means for conservation.
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- Mapping illegal trade routes of live cheetahs from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Methionine, threonine and glutamic acid adapted pathways in captive cheetahs on a glycine-supplemented diet.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2025Article
- Inferring the historical demography of southern African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) using Bayesian analyses of molecular genetic data.Genetics and molecular biology · 2025Article
- Agenda of Early Life Experience and Its Association with Sensitivity to Human Presence and Familiarity in Wild-Born Orphaned Captive Cheetahs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Detection Dogs Working in Hot Climates: The Influence on Thermoregulation and Fecal Consistency.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Diversity of selected toll-like receptor genes in cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) and African leopards (Panthera pardus pardus).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A chromosome-scale high-contiguity genome assembly of the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus).The Journal of heredity · 2023Article
- The potential and shortcomings of mitochondrial DNA analysis for cheetah conservation management.Conservation genetics (Print) · 2023Article
- Animal behavior informed by history: Was the Asiatic cheetah an obligate gazelle hunter?PloS one · 2023Article
- Introducing African cheetahs to India is an ill-advised conservation attempt.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- A unique Toxoplasma gondii haplotype accompanied the global expansion of cats.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the Fecal Proteome in Healthy and Diseased Cheetahs (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Genomic analyses show extremely perilous conservation status of African and Asiatic cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Assessing Asiatic cheetah's individual diet using metabarcoding and its implication for conservation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Establishing and maintaining protected areas (PAs) are key tools for biodiversity conservation. However, this approach is insufficient for many species, particularly those that are wide-ranging and sparse. The cheetah Acinonyx jubatus exemplifies such a species and faces extreme challenges to its survival. Here, we show that the global population is estimated at ∼7,100 individuals and confined to 9% of its historical distributional range. However, the majority of current range (77%) occurs outside of PAs, where the species faces multiple threats. Scenario modeling shows that, where growth rates are suppressed outside PAs, extinction rates increase rapidly as the proportion of population protected declines. Sensitivity analysis shows that growth rates within PAs have to be high if they are to compensate for declines outside. Susceptibility of cheetah to rapid decline is evidenced by recent rapid contraction in range, supporting an uplisting of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List threat assessment to endangered. Our results are applicable to other protection-reliant species, which may be subject to systematic underestimation of threat when there is insufficient information outside PAs. Ultimately, conserving many of these species necessitates a paradigm shift in conservation toward a holistic approach that incentivizes protection and promotes sustainable human-wildlife coexistence across large multiple-use landscapes.
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