THE CHEETAH IS FACING MANY PROBLEMS
Loss of prey to other predators, ineffective hunting and lack of food lead to a small survival rate of the cubs.
Between 2005 and 2011 at least 11 cheetahs got killed by road accidents. The actual loss is probably higher.Cheetahs get still illegally caught for life in captivity.
Because of the low number of the cheetahs they are forced to mate with close relatives which limits the genetic diversity of the kind. This means the animal is more susceptible to diseases and deformations so the number of offspring lowers and the death rate rises.
Bedouin hunter with a shot Asiatic Cheetah and cub, Iraq, 1925.
Widespread hunting of this animal and its prey species along with conversion of its grassland habitat to farmland has wiped it out completely from its entire range in southwest Asia and India. Critically endangered with extinction, there are less than a hundred Asiatic cheetahs in the world; they can only be found in the central desert of Iran.
If the cheetah has problems finding food, he will go for easy prey in a farm. He then gets hunted by the farmers who see the cheetah as a threat to their livestock.