Dark haired, slender and moving with the same quiet glide of the cats she loves, Lise has been working to save cheetahs and leopards for ten years. It's not an easy task in a country where cheetahs and leopards are as unwelcome on a farm as wolves are on a ranch out west in the United States. Some are being rehabilitated. They are fed until they are well-nourished and their injuries are treated and healed. Then they are released to a farm owned by an enlightened farmer or to a game reserve somewhere else in Africa that needs a predatory cat.
Some cats never recover from their injuries enough to be returned to the wild.
Others have become too habituated to humans to be able to survive in the wild. Others are simply too old. These cats that cannot be rehabilitated are the Foundation's permanent residents. Within this area there are several cheetah and leopard camps. It will be used as a transition area for rehabilitation of cats that might be able to return to the wild.