{"id":65439,"date":"2023-12-06T12:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/actualites\/2023\/12\/06\/world-cheetah-day-december-5\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:24:51","slug":"world-cheetah-day-december-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/news\/2023\/12\/06\/world-cheetah-day-december-5\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cheetah Day: December 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Today marks the day of the fastest land animal on Earth.<br \/>\nThe one that can reach 110 km\/h in under three seconds!<br \/>\nThe one running just as fast toward extinction in the wild: the cheetah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9GiEjs5PRTI?si=xFzDLUNoIi98TY-q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Sandibe andBeyond Reserve, Okavango Delta. Botswana.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a9 Etendues Sauvages<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">In 2023, only a handful of African territories remain home to this magnificent and fragile predator, with roughly 7,100 individuals left in the wild. An estimated 100,000 roamed free in 1900.<br \/>\nThe factors behind its ongoing decline are numerous, but the main cause today is the shrinking space available to it, given that its way of life requires a very specific biotope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">National parks and conservation areas are more essential than ever to its survival \u2014 provided they aren&#8217;t subject to tourism overcrowding, as is too often the case in parts of East Africa.<br \/>\nHere in Botswana, certain private concessions, reserves, and national parks manage to combine the best of both worlds: wide open spaces with low vegetation and carefully managed visitor numbers that don&#8217;t interfere with its highly specific hunting technique.<\/p>\n<p>It raises the question: could responsible tourism be the cornerstone of protecting this remarkable animal?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the day of the fastest land animal on Earth. The one that can reach 110 km\/h in under three seconds! The one running just as fast toward extinction in the wild: the cheetah. Sandibe andBeyond Reserve, Okavango Delta. Botswana. \u00a9 Etendues Sauvages In 2023, only a handful of African territories remain home to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":64524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[2252,2346,2279,2384,2382,2383,2381],"class_list":["post-65439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-botswana","category-non-classifiee","tag-afrique","tag-afrique-australe","tag-botswana","tag-conservation-de-la-faune-et-de-la-flore","tag-extinction","tag-felin","tag-guepard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etendues-sauvages.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}