A Michael Broad Blog
Lolita isn’t a cat. While she isn’t a beloved finned-family member, she presently has a group of devoted active animal advocates who are working passionately to set her free. These advocates are in the process of taking further legal action to finally get her released back into the wild. Lolita is a highly intelligent …
The days are gone when zoos could scoop up a basket full of wild animals to replenish their zoo stock and maintain genetic diversity. Now they are engaged in Species Survival Plans (SSPs) and it is projected that the best they can do is keep animals alive in zoos for 100 years and that …
A major threat to the survival of the cheetah in Namibia is retaliatory killing or preventative killing of this wild cat species by farmers. They think the cheetah kills their livestock such as calves. Either they kill the cheetah because they think a cheetah has killed a calf or they want to prevent the …
There are six species of leopard and in this article I am referring to the common leopard. This is because when people talk about the leopard, they really mean the common leopard. The word “endangered” means different things to different people. Technically the common leopard, scientific name Pantera pardus, is classified as being “Near …
The world’s two most damaging natural products with respect to forests are: palm oil and natural rubber. The once vast, natural and ancient forests of Asia and Africa are inhabited by many precious wild species including notable wild cat species such as the Sumatran tiger, the Borneo bay cat, the African golden cat and …
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 …
There is disagreement about how best to protect and conserve the progressively endangered Scottish wildcat. The Scottish wildcat is in a precarious situation. The species is becoming extinct and has been for many, many years. This is primarily because of breeding with outdoor domestic and feral cats leaving the Scottish wildcat non-purebred hybrids which …
As is commonplace throughout the world we have another example of business destroying the habitat of wild cat species which in this case concerns the leopard cat (aka Asian leopard cat) in Miaoli, a county in the middle of Taiwan. Also commonplace is the destruction of habitat by big business under dubious planning applications …
