Research overview: cheetahs on commercial farmland and conflict in Namibia

This overview surveys human-cheetah conflict in Namibia, home to a large share of the world's cheetahs living largely outside protected areas on commercial and communal farmland. It reviews patterns of perceived and actual livestock and game losses, indiscriminate trapping at scent-marking play trees, and farmer attitudes shaped by economics and tradition. The literature documents how research and outreach by conservation organisations, livestock-guarding dogs, improved husbandry, and demonstrating cheetahs' modest depredation impact have shifted some farmers toward tolerance and live-removal alternatives to killing. The survey frames Namibian farmland as a key arena where coexistence with a low-density, wide-ranging cat depends on private-land stewardship.