Cherie Schroff

Cherie Schroff, M.Sc., will lead this project, as the Principal Investigator of the Tsavo Cheetah Project, a cheetah conservation-research and education project in Kenya, working under the US non-profit organization Felidae Conservation Fund. Cherie is a National Geographic Explorer who has spent nearly two decades working with cheetah and African predator monitoring techniques, and ten years of leading the project in Tsavo, in cooperation with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). In addition to her seasoned experience setting and collecting data through camera traps, she has established essential working relationships and partnerships with the surrounding communities, landowners, and the Taita-Taveta Wildlife Conservancies Association (TTWCA), which places her in an advantaged position to influence long-term conservation and management decisions for the cheetah.

November 2021