Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat

by Sy Montgomery

Book Overview

Since the year 1900, cheetah footprints quickly dwindled in African dirt as the species plummeted from more than 100,000 to fewer than 10,000. At the Cheetah Conservation Fund's (CCF) African headquarters in Namibia, Laurie Marker and her team save these stunning, swift, and slender creatures from extinction. Since the organization's start in 1990, they've rescued more than 900 cheetahs, most of whom have been returned to the wild. But this arduous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547815492
• ISBN13: 9780547815497
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7