somaliland: The baby cheetahs are just a few weeks old, but they've had a traumatic start to life, according to Nine News Australia. A smuggler was attempting to spirit the cubs out of Somaliland, a breakaway state from Somalia, when he was caught red-handed by the authorities. To improve your experience update it here News World Ultra-rich are illegally buying cheetahs as pets leading to their extinction By CNN5 16pm Aug 28, tiny balls of fur huddle together for warmth inside a cardboard box. Young cheetahs are taken from the wild in a trend of epidemic proportions . Universal Images Group via Getty The cubs, who will soon be taken to a safehouse, are the lucky ones. At the current rates of trafficking, the cheetah population in the region could soon be wiped out. Some 300 young cheetahs are trafficked out of Somaliland every year - around the same number as the entire population of adult and adolescent cheetahs in unprotected areas in the Horn of Africa, according to the Cheetah Conservation Fund CCF . The trend is of epidemic proportions, according to CCF, an organisation devoted to saving cheetahs in the wild.
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