Kodkod – comprehensive treatise

Threats and Conservation

Threats:

• destruction of temperate moist forest (which this cat prefers) due to logging
• spread of pine forest (lower densities of Kodkod)
• seen as a nuisance in taking poultry and killed by farmers. Local people unreasonably consider the cat is damaging to their livelihood as there are relatively few cases of this cat raiding chicken coops and the coops are insufficiently protected. It would seem that a lot of cats are lost this way.

Conservation:

• protected areas although too small
• national parks
• farmers need to be encouraged to protect their chickens better and be educated on the vulnerability of this cat’s existence
• providing connecting forest to stop fragmentation where the forest is managed
• listed in CITES Appendix II ( lists species that are not necessarily now threatened with extinction but that may become so unless trade is closely controlled – src: CITES verbatim)
• protected by national legislation

There is lots of protection so why is the population in constant decline?

Sources:

• IUCN Red List
• Wikipedia
• Flickr
• Jim Sanderson Ph.D. Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation
• PoC
• Wild Cats Of The World

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