Sentences with phrase «percent of cheetahs»

Researchers from Zoological Society of London, Panthera and Wildlife Conservation Society conducted the study and reported that nearly 91 percent of cheetahs have been driven out of their historic range because people have been hunting the animal's prey.

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Other species have only fared slightly better: the dama gazelle and addax are gone from 99 percent of their range; the leopard from 97 percent, and the Saharan cheetah from 90.

This estimate is 11 percent lower than the current assessment of the IUCN, supporting the call for the upgrading of cheetahs from «Vulnerable» to «Endangered»,» says lead author Florian Weise, scientist at the Community Living Among Wildlife Sustainability Conservancy (CLAWS), USA.