A Michael Broad Blog
This is an example of how the European Union can affect cat ownership in the UK. We know how European Union regulations can invade all parts of our life here in the UK and many people don’t like it; this is another example. There are two aspects of this. Firstly, everybody has heard about …
The South China tiger, which is considered to be extinct in the wild and of which there are about 100 in captivity, has benefited from a recent high profile divorce case – Quan v Bray – in the High Court in London. The family assets in this divorce case are valued at about £27m. Of that …
In the news media today there are two cases of captured mountain lions dying. They were not so much captured as killed and what killed them was tranquillizer darts. Are tranquillizer guns being used properly in the capture of mountain lions? In the United States, there appears to be more cases of mountain lions …
Few people are noticing but we are entering the first mass extinction of species to be caused by humans and the sixth mass extinction overall. The Noble prize winner Paul Crutzen has called this mass extinction the Anthropocene. Some experts estimate that a quarter of all mammals and a fifth of all reptiles are …
The population trend for wildcats in general is downwards. That applies to the African wildcat – the wild ancestor to the domestic cat and an important species for that reason. Incidentally, there are two subspecies of African wildcat: the African wildcat, F. s. lybica, or North African wildcat and the southern African wildcat, F.s. cafra. …
USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) has repeatedly covertly promoted the killing of cats by allowing its employees to demonise free-roaming and feral cats in sponsored conferences and recently in writing to policymakers in Escambia County, Florida. The image below is from a USFWS presentation showing the cat’s voracious appetite for killing wildlife. The letter …
By D. Green Today (16th Nov. 2013) I heard the Scottish Wildcat was close to becoming extinct and it made me remember an experience I had when aged 8-10, on the South Downs in about 1976-1978, where I think I saw one. Not only saw it but came within about 8ft of it and …
Cashmere is killing the precious, endangered snow leopard. Increased demand for cashmere results in more livestock (goats) that produces cashmere, which in turn reduces the amount of wildlife upon which the snow leopard preys. This is because the cashmere producing goats feed on the same plant food source as the ungulates that are the …
