Sickening - Trading/stealing Cheetah cubs for profit

[packman]

Snatched from their mothers, shipped out of Africa to war-torn Yemen and onward to the Gulf, cubs that survive the ordeal can fetch up to $15,000 on the black market.

It is a busy trade, one less familiar than criminal markets for elephant ivory or rhino horn, but equally devastating for Africa's most endangered big cat.


A century ago, there were an estimated 100,000 cheetahs worldwide. Today barely 7,000 remain, their numbers slashed by human encroachment and habitat destruction.

... wealthy owners liked to show off their cheetahs in selfies as much as their cars and cash.


https://phys.org/news/2021-11-cheetahs-fast-extinction-cub.html

[Bayard]

1. And what happens when the wealthy, "owners", get tired of them?

Ship them to Texas for big game hunts?

Another despicable act for greed.