The important news about this rare wild cat species is that its habitat has been and continues to be systematically destroyed by human exploitation to make a range of products (see map below). Around 20 years ago in 2002, Fiona Sunquist (WIld Cats of the World) described this cat as “the world’s least known felid”. We know more now thanks to guys like Dr. Jim Sanderson who took the photo in the infographic and which is used here with his permission. He is a small wild cat species specialist. The Borneo bay cat or just ‘bay cat’ is only found on Borneo, the third largest island in the world. In 2002 there were only 12 known ‘specimens’ of this cat meaning body parts. In 1992 the first live bay cat ‘surfaced’. Analyses have confirmed that the Bay cat is closely related to the Asiatic golden cat.
