Since two months, Iketle, the cheetah female sponsored by Rhulani, lives in freedom. We eagerly hope that the endangered animal settles in well and will get pregnant later this year. In the meantime, Iketle provides surprising headlines.This week, we found her outside the reserve!

The cheetah female “iketle”, sponsored by Rhulani, is living in freedom for three weeks in the Madikwe Game Reserve. How is she doing? We speak with Declan Hofmeyr, Operations Manager of the reserve.

The cheetah female Iketle was seen with the first kill since her recent release. She caught a little scrub hare.

With great hope the cheetah female “Iketle” was released in Madikwe Game Reserve last Friday. Rhulani Safari Lodge, a main sponsor of the project, was there.

We dedicate today’s blog due to current events to the “Cheetah Project” in Madikwe. Today, our wonderful, small, skinny cheetah female named “Iketle” gets released into the reserve. Watch this uncut version of an amazing release.

The next step in the cheetah project is concluded. A young female has successfully arrived at Madikwe and is now getting habituated to the new environment in a protective boma. At Rhulani Safari Lodge, sponsor of the “cheetah female project”, we are very excited about this news!

It was a very urgent conservation activity sponsored by Rhulani. A baby elephant was found in the reserve with a plastic piece around its trunk, which the little animal had picked up somewhere and which had to be removed. The operation went very quick and without any friction. Now, the baby is happy again and joined its mother right after the intervention.

They were staying for a long time in the protective boma. But now they are free, the two cheetah males of Madikwe, which are called the “Phinda Coalition”. We now have the first wonderful photos.

On the Easter week-end, with a short delay, two more male cheetahs were released into freedom. The two boys had become familiar with the new environment during months in a protective boma. Now they will try fortune in the 75,000 hecatres of Madikwe Reserve.

Once again, the ambitious Cheetah project has stalled. The two female have not yet arrived in the reserve. A lot of patience is required, until young Cheetah can be seen in Madikwe.