A Michael Broad Blog
A study has come to the astonishing conclusion that the diminutive sand cat, about the size of a small domestic cat at 7.5 pounds, has an enormous home range in Morocco. Or, perhaps, it doesn’t have a home range at all and is nomadic. Either way the revelation is extraordinary. In Morocco female sand …
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 …
Accurate assessment of wild cat population sizes is notoriously vague and sometimes misleading or nonexistent despite the best efforts of all concerned. On that basis assessing the threat of extinction of a species of wild cat is going to be just that, an assessment. It could, in fact, be argued that on occasion there …
The title to this page tells you that I’m going to provide you snow leopard population sizes as at 2022. It should be noted, however, that the latest information is 2016. That might seem quite bad but actually it’s quite good. It’s about six years out of date but you don’t get much better …
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 …
Fortunately, the IUCN Red List, the organisation charged with compiling data on the population sizes of wild cat species, can provide us with a figure which is 23,000-39,000 mature individuals. They say that the population is not severely fragmented but that it continues to decline. The population trend is: decreasing. I’m going to rely …
We don’t know how many caracals are left in the world. That may surprise you. The authority on how many caracals that are left in the world should be the IUCN Red List. This is a conservation organisation which should be able to tell the world the status of the species of animal and …
We don’t have a f***king clue as to the number of Jaguarundis that are left in the world. Yep, it’s true. It looks to me as if people have given up, what I mean is the people who are meant to not give up, the conservationists, the people who are concerned about protecting wildlife. …
