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Cheetah 'More Vulnerable To Extinction Than Previously Thought'

Cheetah 'More Vulnerable To Extinction Than Previously Thought'

by The Daily Eye Team December 30 2016, 6:38 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 23 secs

Urgent action is needed to stop the cheetah – the world’s fastest land animal– becoming extinct, experts have warned. Scientists estimate that only 7,100 of the fleet-footed cats remain in the wild, occupying 9% of the territory they once lived in. Asiatic populations have been hit the hardest, with fewer than 50 surviving in Iran, according to an investigation led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

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