Regarding facilities in which cheetahs are bred and researched, Adam M. Roberts, CEO of Born Free USA and Born Free Foundation, explains: “You can breed cheetahs and keep them in captivity but that doesn’t have a positive conservation value. There’s no correlation between that and protection in the wild.” Roberts says that cheetahs in the wild are under great threat, and that hasn’t changed in recent years as captive breeding techniques improved. According to Roberts, the biggest threat to cheetahs is the capture of wild cheetahs as exotic pets—and “captive breeding masks the trade.”
Link: Motherboard