Save cheetahs, save the world.

This is Joris' sixth year fundraising to help save cheetahs living in the wild! Cheetahs have been his favorite animal as long as he can remember. When he read about the very real possibility that cheetahs might become extinct in his lifetime, he was very distraught and asked how he can help to prevent that from happening. He was 6 years old at that time.

Ever since, Joris and his mom have been fundraising to try to help the cheetahs. They have an online fundraiser, have run many lemonade stands, wrote to businesses for support, sold flowers and held rollerskating parties. So far, he has raised well over $25,000 to help the researchers at N/a'an ku sê continue their important work.

N/a'an ku sê is a wildlife sanctuary that cares for injured and orphaned wildlife, with the ultimate goal to re-release them in the wild. One of their efforts that has been proven to be highly successful is talking to farmers and helping them come up with better solutions other than shooting the predators (cheetahs, leopards, wild dogs and hyenas). This is called human-wildlife mitigation. It's so important as every farmer they get to agree to not shoot cheetahs helps animals survive and have a larger safe-zone to exist.

Cheetah Joris:


Joris feels so strongly about saving cheetahs that he spends his summer vacations volunteering at N/a'an ku sê. He helps clean enclosures, prepare food and feed the animals and helps with research efforts - an important part of ultimate species' survival.

Joris wants to become a wildlife biologist or researcher and work at N/a'an ku sê full-time when he grows up. He is confident that he can help contribute to cheetahs' survival. Will you help too?