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This article is talking about the current population squeeze, and how this has happened twice in the past. As in, 10,000+ years ago.
There is no new emminent threat to cheetahs. There are well funded global cheetah breeding programs that are successfully breeding cheetahs with their unique genetic restrictions in mind.
Professional ecologists are well underway toward repairing cheetah populations. They arent going to go extinct