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Even if the council isn't the highest bidder for the computer, they can also redeem the points for 70 autographed photos of Frito-Lay mascot Chester Cheetah or 26 liquid-filled CD holders...
...Marker realized that if she was going to get serious about cheetah conservation, she'd have to move to Africa. In 1990 she negotiated the use of three farms near a national game reserve and set up the Cheetah Conservation Fund, transforming old farm buildings into an office and research center for scientists and students. More important, she opened a dialogue with local farmers. When she arrived, she recalls, "they were killing cheetahs right, left and center...
Fortunately she had a way to get their attention: by using Khayam as an ambassador. With the tame cheetah at her side, she toured the farmlands. "It was tough at first," she admits, "but the more the farmers learned about cheetahs, the more they listened." She told them that cattle are not the cheetah's favorite food; if the farmers kept antelope and other wild animals on their land, the cats would be more likely to leave the cattle alone. She gave farmers guard dogs to help keep cheetahs away...
...what incentive did the farmers have to take her advice? Ironically, the value of cheetahs to trophy hunters could help the cat population as a whole--as long as the hunting is controlled. Farmers learned that if they allowed hunters on part of their land, they could make money from the occasional shooting of a cheetah, but made nothing if they kept killing the cats themselves. Meanwhile, Marker helped encourage the Namibia Professional Hunters' Association to enforce strict limits on the number of cheetahs shot. The logic was simple: shoot too many cheetahs now and there...
Khayam died in 1986, but a new cat quickly took over her role. Orphaned as a cub and raised on the farm, the cheetah goes by the name of Chewbaaka, after the furry Star Wars character. That's an appropriate moniker for Marker's sidekick, since you could easily call Marker the Han Solo of the fight to protect cheetahs...