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Laurie Marker Biography
Influential Animal Right Activist
Laurie Marker
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Who is Laurie Marker
Laurie Marker is an American zoologist, researcher, author, educator, and one of the world's foremost cheetah experts, who founded the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in 1990. As executive director of CCF, among many endeavors, Marker helps rehabilitate cheetahs and reintroduce them to the wild, performs research into conservation, biology and ecology, educates groups around the world, and works toward a holistic approach to saving the cheetah and its ecosystems in the wild. Before her work with CCF, Marker's career started to take off at the Wildlife Safari in the U.S., where her interest with captive cheetahs began.
Early Life
Laurie Marker (née Laura Lee Bushey) was born in Detroit, Michigan and lived in Birmingham, a suburb of Detroit. Her father, Ralph, came from a farming family and was an agricultural economist and accountant. Her mother, Marline, was an elementary and high school teacher and kept the family active in the community with nonprofit work. Marker's family moved to Southern California when she was four years-old. She spent her childhood surrounded by animals, learning how to care for horses, dogs, cats, rabbits
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Dr. Laurie Marker
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"During our nearly 30 years, we've rescued nearly 1,000 cheetahs, and put more than 600 back onto the wild landscape."
Photo courtesy of Cheetah Conservation Fund.
Philanthropy
In the 1970’s, American-born Dr. Laurie Marker was alarmed to discover that cheetah were disappearing from their African habitat. Since no one was doing much about it, she founded Cheetah Conservation Fund in 1990 and moved permanently to Namibia after the country’s independence the same year. She dropped by our Tribeca office last spring when she was in town to chat cheetah with us.
First, tell us a few things about cheetahs that we might not know. Where do they live, what are they like, and how do they differ from other big cats?
Cheetahs are very special cats. They are the fastest of all land animals. They are capable of reaching speeds up to 70 mph. They are excellent hunters, and they feed many creatures in the veld from their efforts. They are the only big cat that purrs, and they have unique vocalizations. Dog-like barks, bird-like chirps, growls and hisses and a noise we call “bubbles.” They also have amazing vision—they can spot predators or prey a mile away across the open savannah—and a penetrating gaze. I consider the species to be highly intelligent. They are also the oldest of the