Yeah, there's up of intellect in these.

Get him out.

Yeah, Yeah, Let's do it.

The last thing we want to do is lose this cat after long journey along this effort and all the permitting and everything that's got into getting him here.

If you got a dog can run into the fence, you get this stuff, please.

So these air force so bad, all three females and males, you'll notice that the male is the larger.

I'm gonna see if I can get for a show just two days.

I'm the Cheetah meta, population coordinator for the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

But if you want to really break it down into simpler terms, I'm a cheater matchmaker.

So I effectively identify which cheetah are related to each other to swap individuals between these reserves to prevent inbreeding.

Cheetah have been on the receiving end of a bad relationship with human beings for 13 years, and the one way to deal with that issue is to effectively fence humans out and fence the wildlife.

In.

In the last 100 years, the human population has increased 20 fold on the continent.

South Africa's, of course, Africa's most developed country.

So it's particularly difficult for cheater to traverse South African landscape.

That's why we have such a dire need to utilize this approach.

A cheetah.

Yeah, adult, You can look.

Yeah, that guy.

Friends.

Yeah, and the males differently away, Kate.

This is the first time that conservation officials have really attempted thio implement managed meta populations.

And we've made a lot of mistakes in the process.

We've learned that it's not easy to relocate wildlife.

There's a lot of urgency, you know.

It's always you are always on the go go, go!

Look at that.

Thank goodness I was going on 20.

Thank goodness is that my brother got stopped there.

Done.

When we relocate Cheetah and often is a good 20 hour drive, that animal is in the back of your vehicle.

Adrenaline's pumping can be stressful work sometimes, but a big thunderstorm ahead of us.

So we quickly having to mobilize on cover up these openings on top of the Craig's here, because if these cheater get wet and trans, especially the wind blowing onto them, they could pick up pneumonia, pneumonia or something like that.

So we're going to cover this up and then hopefully by the time we hit the approaching storm for these cheat are gonna be able t o stay dry with nothing can come in from the front.

It's enough inflation from the sides.

Well, good.

All right.

Starting with this issue, cheetah have bean eradicated from 91% of the historical range in Africa recently, their numbers dipped down to 70 This implies that they are likely to be upgraded to endangered status.

We, as humans have a responsibility to protect our wildlife.

You have certain reserves with cheetah populations actually going extinct.

I don't enjoy transporting cheetah over large distances in such confined environments.

But this approach is undoubtedly working.

We now have successfully reintroduced Cheetah into 53 reserves across the country.

I must be honest.

I still go through bouts of nervousness.

We've hit a bit of a tricky situation with this young sub adult male.

He seems to be a little stressed in that confined transport crate.

So you know, if that behavior persists, we're gonna have to make the very difficult call off off, Possibly releasing him at nighttime.

I can't.

During emergencies, we sometimes have to make the hard call off releasing at night.

When we do that, we try to eliminate the Bomer as much as possible.

Vehicles.

Yeah, Boma is a holding facility that's a fully electrified so that she cannot get out of there.

It's a really Fort Knox.

If he starts running into the sides off the Boma, then we'll be left.

No option but to immobilize him again.

Sorry, Boston, we want to introduce.

Turn around and try and find us close.

Left your eyes looking it morning.

Nice and relaxed.

Well, well to be part of the only project that it's seeing an increase in cheetah numbers.

That's an absolute privilege.

I'm optimistic that this technique will start to be used in East Africa.

It will go to Central Africa.

It will go to West Africa, hopefully North African, possibly even Asia, in the future.

Mhm.