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SAUDI ARABIA / ANIMAL RIGHTS – 03/01/2019 How owning a cheetah is the newest fad for rich Instagrammers in the Gulf countries

In the past few years, wealthy Instagrammers from the Gulf countries have been filling social media with photos and videos of their pet cheetahs – doing everything from playing like domestic cats to hunting gazelles in the desert. These posts are incredibly popular and viewers who want to get in on this fad don’t have to look far to find ads for cheetahs for sale. To fulfil the demand, a business has cropped up trafficking cheetahs from the Horn of Africa into the Gulf states, which is endangering the survival of this species.

In the past century, the number of cheetahs in the world has dropped from 100,000 to just 7,100. The number of illegal sales has exploded and at least 1,500 cheetahs have been sold online…