How can we help sand cats?
In order to figure out how to help sand cats you have to know what the threats are to the survival in the wild of this small wild cat. These are listed on the IUCN Red List website but sadly … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: wild cat conservation
If a cougar mauls a dog and kills a domestic cat you shoot the cougar
The policy of conservation officerso in the area of Penticton1, British Columbia, Canada, is to shoot dead a cougar (even a young one2) if it mauls someone’s dog and kills a cat. Conservation officers do this because it indicates a … Continue reading →
The Chernobyl catastrophe proves that wild animals are better off without us
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 … Continue reading →
Forest habitat for lynx is flushed down the toilet
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 … Continue reading →
Virginia McKenna’s Plea to the British Government to Ban Importation of Lion Products
Virginia McKenna is the famous lady who starred in the film Born Free with her husband Bill and a lion. It is a film that many people anywhere on the planet will remember. The film was made more than half … Continue reading →
Demand for two products is destroying natural forest inhabited by endangered species
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 … Continue reading →
European Union failing to support developing countries to stop wildlife trafficking
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. … Continue reading →
The Iberian lynx faces extinction in Spain. Relocate some to the UK.
Anne-Marie Hodge writing for the Ecology Global Network paints a bleak picture of the survival of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), the rarest of all wild cat species. She says that climate change is an added factor in the demise … Continue reading →
Both Rich and Poor Nations Responsible for Decline in Wildlife
In different ways both rich and poor countries share the blame for a halving in wildlife populations since 1970. Over this time the world’s human population has neatly doubled. Africa has the sharpest increase as I recall. Most of the … Continue reading →
Tranquillizer Darts Killing Mountain Lions
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 … Continue reading →