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Project Cheetah

India’s much vaunted Project Cheetah ill-conceived and being killed off by red tape

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NEWS AND COMMENT: You may have heard about Project Cheetah. It is the relocation of, initially, 20 cheetahs from Namibia, Africa to the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, India. The cheetah was extirpated in that country by 1953 due to man’s mismanagement and cruel exploitation. The grand relocation plan envisaged there would be 500 …

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Clouded leopard is arboreal and can hang upside down like a monkey

Infographic on wild cat species in Africa, S. America and S.E. Asia

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This infographic lists the wild cat species on the African and South American continents and in Southeast Asia. Remarkably there are a similar number of species in each region. The weight ranges are also listed per species. All of them are endangered to varying degrees through human activities of various kinds. Conservation is the most …

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Carole Baskin

Carole Baskin to close Big Cat Rescue (BCR) in Florida and sell the land

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NEWS AND COMMENT – FLORIDA, USA: This is a cool development in the history of Big Cat Rescue (BCR) in Florida. It is the next logical stage in its history it seems to me. As Carole Baskin so brilliantly and successful campaigned for the Big Cat Safety Act (BCPSA) which prohibits unlicensed people from owning …

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Pallas's cat in Mongolia

Pallas’s cat is NOT endangered generally the experts say

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People ask ‘Why are Pallas’s cats endangered?’ but they aren’t according to the people who are meant to know. It is a slightly surprising conclusion by the IUCN Red List people who’ve listed the Pallas’s cat as Least Concern. This is one step better than Near Threatened (see categories below). In other words, they believe …

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Cat predation on crested lark curtailed by Walldorf's administrators

Ongoing grounding of cats in Walldorf for three months annually to protect endangered bird

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A German town, Walldorf, ordered residents to lock their cats indoors over the summer for the next three years or face a fine of €500. The move was designed to protect ground-nesting, endangered crested larks; particularly the hatchlings who are very vulnerable. Fines could rise as high as €50,000. Ornithologists were clearly delighted at the …

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IUCN Red List Categories

The ‘authoritative’ Red List of Threatened Species is flawed and opens the door to trophy hunting

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The Red List should be called “Red Lost”, they are so hopeless. At last, the experts have decided that the so-called ‘authoritative’ IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is behind the curve in assessing how endangered iconic species are to extinction. The “Red List” is a vitally important organisation in conservation. It is they who …

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Conflict between animal welfare and conservation in Australia

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The conservation of wild animals should go hand-in-hand with animal welfare. They are two branches of the same thing. Conservation protects wild animals and animal welfare laws protect wild and domestic animals. However, in Australia conservation is in direct conflict with animal welfare. They’ve got themselves into an unholy mess on the issue of animal …

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Vigilante letter demanding that residents of a Canberra street lock up their cats or else

Vigilantes taking the law into their own hands on domestic cats killing wildlife

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AUSTRALIA NEWS AND VIEWS: In certain parts of Canberra, there are cat containment ordinances which makes it compulsory to keep cats inside but in other parts they are allowed outside. In one of these districts there is an individual who is acting as a vigilante in delivering threatening letters to their neighbours. A vigilante approach …

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Mount Taranaki

Muddled thinking by conservation group in New Zealand which wants to kill cats

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COMMENT ON THE NEWS: Taranaki is a region in the west of New Zealand’s North Island. I’ve never visited but it looks beautiful and it is named after Mount Taranaki, an extinct volcano. The Taranaki Regional Council have a management plan to conserve native wild species. They want to manage the pests and vermin which …

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Börje beech chair

Ikea allegedly implicated in illegal deforestation of lynx habitat

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Vicariously, Ikea has been accused of illegal logging of forests in Ukraine where Eurasion lynx live. This harms the conservation prospects of this precious species of medium-sized wild cat. Ikea is investigating claims that some of it wood suppliers are illegally cutting down trees such as beech trees from old growth forests. Beech is used …

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Willy Schraen

France: call to trap all domestic cats more than 300 metres from their homes

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FRANCE: Willy Schraen, 50, the head of the National Federation of Hunters has called for the trapping of all cats no matter whether they are stray or domestic found wandering more than 300 metres from their homes because they are killing wildlife and present an existential menace to birds and other small animals in the …

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Reactive conservation is failing. It is time to solve the problem at source

Myopic reactive wildlife conservation in Africa under siege by coronavirus pandemic

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The coronavirus pandemic has almost shut down tourism to the great reserves and national parks of Africa where they would normally be destined to see the unique wildlife of that magnificent continent. Ironically, because of their presence, tourists help to protect those wild species that are targeted for poaching such as rhinoceros for their horns. …

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Planned protest at BCR

Heads up to Carole Baskin: planned protest at Big Cat Rescue July 10

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Two friends from the state of Indiana, USA are campaigning on Facebook for a protest at Big Cat Rescue, Florida (BCR). Their call to action is published below. The picture is an attempted joke on the refuted accusation (without evidence) repeated in the Netflix film that Baskin put her husband’s body in a meat grinder. …

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