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

Leave a Comment / Cat News, Cheetah, conservation, conservation, Human to cat relationship, India, Wild Cat Species / By Michael Broad

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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Let’s think of the endangered wild cats

conservation / By Michael Broad

Introduction: This is a modified e-zine article I wrote on June 18, 2009. Yes, 13 years ago and it still very relevant today which is why I have converted it into an article. The Small Wildcats ..and one Big cat Before I started to build this website some 2 years ago (note: this was written …

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Tourist vehicles near a tiger at Sariska Tiger Reserve

Visitors to national parks and reserves dramatically alters animals’ behaviour negatively

Leave a Comment / conservation / By Michael Broad

A new American study undermines the whole concept of wildlife reserves and national parks. The suggestion is that humans should be barred completely from wildlife reserves including tiger reserves in India. If people are serious about wildlife conservation it is time to leave wildlife alone. I’m going to refer to a couple of studies, in …

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What were presented to Donald Trump as genuine cheetah and tiger fur robes turned out to be fake following an inspection by the US Fish and Wildlife service

Multiple misdeeds over Saudi gift to Trump of cheetah and white tiger robes

Leave a Comment / conservation / By Michael Broad

NEWS AND COMMENT: For me, this is a story of multiple misdeeds as I have described it. During Trump’s tenure of the presidency of the United States he visited Saudi Arabia and was given expensive gifts. The gifts were presented to him during his 2017 trip; his first overseas presidential visit. They included cheetah and …

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Why vegans must not own cats. Discuss.

conservation / By Michael Broad

There is an article on The Spectator website by Mary Wakefield which, perhaps somewhat tongue in cheek, argues why vegans must not own cats. My initial response was that she is wrong. Why shouldn’t vegans own cats? Lots of them do. Just because you don’t eat meat does not mean that you can’t feed your …

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The Chernobyl catastrophe proves that wild animals are better off without us

Leave a Comment / conservation / By Michael Broad

With humans out of the way, Chernobyl’s wildlife thrives like never before. When reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded on April 26, 1986, many people, thousands of trees and most of the animals in the area were killed. Subsequently many people have been killed because of radiation poisoning. The radiation emitted …

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Forest habitat for lynx is flushed down the toilet

2 Comments / conservation / By Michael Broad

Millions of people are wiping their bums with toilet paper made from old-growth forest in the north of Sweden in which lynx, wolves and reindeer live. The stripped forest is replanted with fast-growing lodgepole pine in which reindeer can’t live because it is too dense. It is also non-native to the region. It is astonishing …

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Conservationists Who Tag Wild Animals May Expose Them to Poachers

Leave a Comment / conservation / By Michael Broad

This is an instance were conservationists can inadvertently achieve the exact opposite to their goal. It is an example where weaknesses in technology allow traders in wildlife and body parts to get the better of conservation organisations. And technology is becoming more and more useful and used in conservation of wildlife making the problem more …

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Putin’s Kremlin Reneges on Conservation of Persian Leopard

Leave a Comment / conservation / By Michael Broad

You may remember the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Like all Olympic Games it was overly expensive (in this case partly due to mass corruption) and the organisers struggled to justify the expenditure but promised a legacy of some sort or other. With respect to Sochi’s Olympic legacy, Putin praised the work of a Persian leopard …

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European Union failing to support developing countries to stop wildlife trafficking

1 Comment / conservation / By Michael Broad

It is shocking to be told that thousands of products made from tigers, elephants, rhinos and other endangered species are being traded in Britain and throughout the European Union. The reason is poor and disjointed controls at ports and airports. It’s another European Union mess to put it frankly. It is estimated that only 10% …

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Cougar Kills Livestock? Protect The Livestock!

7 Comments / conservation, Wild Cat Species / By Michael Broad

If a large wild cat species is killing a farmer’s livestock there are basically two ways that the farmer can deal with the situation. He can kill the cat or protect his livestock¹. The choice that he makes depends on (a) the law – is there is a law concerning this particular matter? — and …

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India: Leopard’s 120 km journey home

12 Comments / conservation, Wild Cat Species / By Michael Broad

This is a story about a common leopard, in India, who was relocated to a new home, Malshej Valley, Malshej Ghat, Maharashtra, about 120 kilometers from his original home – Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai. The leopard’s name is Ajoba and a film was made of Ajoba’s decision to return home on foot passing through countless obstacles …

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