Rebecca Klein
(2002 - current) Managing Director
BSc in Wildlife Biology
Rebecca became interested in starting up a cheetah programme when she moved to Botswana to work at Mokolodi Nature Reserve. Upon discovering that there was no conservation going on for the regularly persecuted and endangered cheetah she decided to initiate a program. She teamed up with Dr Kyle Good and Ann Marie Houser and Cheetah Conservation Botswana came into being in 2003. |  |
Dr Kyle Good
(2003 - current) Programmes Manager, Secretary to the Board
DVM, MRCVS, Veterinary Medicine
While helping Mokolodi Nature Reserve with their veterinary needs, Kyle met Rebecca and became involved with this worthwhile project. Once AnnMarie Houser joined the project, the team was complete and Cheetah Conservation Botswana began to grow in leaps and bounds. Kyle has been instrumental in collecting data from the wild caught cheetah and in the Livestock Guard Dog initiative. |
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AnnMarie Houser
(2003 – 2008) Director of Field Research/Volunteer Coordinator.
MSc in Wildlife Management
Ann Marie built up the base camps in Jwaneng (2003) in Ghanzi (2005); started the research program and coordinated the volunteer program. Her specialization during her time with CCB was in home ranges, spoor tracking and developing methodology for rehabilitating captive/orphaned cheetah cubs to be released back into the wild.
Currently AM is now working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a wildlife biologist for the Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Project. This project is re-establishing the Mexican gray wolf into the wild where they had become extinct, utilizing and breeding captive wolves in New Mexico. This project faces the same difficulties and hurdles faced by cheetah in Africa with the ranching/farming communities and habitat/prey issues. For more information on this project see http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/mexicanwolf/ |
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