In 2017 I partenered with the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre to help them raise funds for the centre. My husband & I spent a wonderful morning photographing the cheetah "Crunchie" that is known as the centre's ambassador. He was born at the centre & after his mother left him & his sister repeatedly out in the rain, the cubs were retrieved by the centre's owner, Lente Roode & hand raised. This beautiful cat was an amazing inspiration & the first painting I did of him was auctioned of in New York to raise funds for the centre , whereafter I did a second painting of this magestic male cheetah..