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==Threats==

==Threats==

[[File:Cheetah.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|Cheetahs resting]]

[[File:Cheetah.jpg|thumbnail|200px|left|Cheetahs resting]]

The cheetah is listed as vulnerable in the ICUN Red Data List<ref>http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/219/0</ref>, with a recent assessment listing the number of wild cheetahs to approximately 7,000<ref>http://www.newsy.com/stories/cheetahs-are-dangerously-close-to-becoming-extinct/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_1367626</ref>.  Cheetahs require large tracts of land in which to hunt, and hence have a low density of numbers where they occur; a density of 0.8-1.0 animals per 100 square kilometers has been cited in the Serengeti Plain for example.  Much land has been altered by man, either for farming or livestock, and faced with a reduction in numbers of prey animals some cheetahs have killed domestic livestock; these cheetahs in turn are dealt with as pests.  Hunting cheetahs for their skins as well as having the cats as exotic pets have made the most serious inroads into their numbers: the subspecies ''A. j. venaticus'', once found over much of south-central Asia, has been reduced to approximately 50 individuals in Iran; the subspecies ''A. j. heckii'' has been reduced to less than 200 in Algeria, and both subspecies are listed as critically endangered<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cheetahs-endangered-panthera-report_us_585c47d2e4b0eb586485d3e0</ref>.

The cheetah is listed as vulnerable in the ICUN Red Data List<ref>http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/219/0</ref>, with a recent assessment listing the number of wild cheetahs to approximately 7,000<ref>http://www.newsy.com/stories/cheetahs-are-dangerously-close-to-becoming-extinct/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_1367626</ref>.  Cheetahs require large tracts of land in which to hunt, and hence have a low density of numbers where they occur; a density of 0.8-1.0 animals per 100 square kilometers has been cited in the Serengeti Plain for example.  Much land has been altered by man, either for farming or livestock, and faced with a reduction in numbers of prey animals some cheetahs have killed domestic livestock; these cheetahs in turn are dealt with as pests.  Hunting cheetahs for their skins as well as having the cats as exotic pets have made the most serious inroads into their numbers: the subspecies ''A. j. venaticus'', once found over much of south-central Asia, has been reduced to approximately 50 individuals in Iran; the subspecies ''A. j. heckii'' has been reduced to less than 200 in Algeria, and both subspecies are listed as critically endangered<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cheetahs-endangered-panthera-report_us_585c47d2e4b0eb586485d3e0</ref>.