caracal On ground level they are still working hard to make the release of the wild leopards Sawal and Dimas a fact. Sadly things in Indonesia are not going fast, as you can expect of a country with an attitude “if not today, there’s always tomorrow!” But currently there’s a meeting with Ciremai National Park to … Read more
Yes, on ground level they are still working hard to make the release of the wild leopards Sawal and Dimas a fact. Sadly, things in Indonesia are not going fast, as you can expect of a country with an attitude “if not today, there’s always tomorrow!” But currently there’s a meeting with Ciremai National Park … Read more
15 MARCH 2014, AMSTERDAM On 15 March 2014 the world united in a Global March for Lions. The March against Canned Hunting. These photos are taken during the participation (read: joining the march against Canned hunting) of Wild Cats World in the Amsterdam-March to give you all an impression of a very successful day, with … Read more
CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND (CCF) Laurie Marker (CCF) in the Netherlands Tuesday, February 18th 2014 Laurie Marker, the ambassador of the cheetah from Namibia, will have a presentation about her work as founder/director of Cheetah Conservation Fund for the endangered cheetah. It will take place in Leeuwarden, Van Hall Institute, 19h15. Everybody who has a heart for the cheetah with a wish … Read more
In 24 hours the world lost 2 fighters: a great human being, Nelson Mandela (“Madiba”) but also our tiny little black-footed cat kitten. The surrogate (domestic) mothercat did an excellent job and the first days the weight increased but sadly the last 2 days he got it bad and stopped drinking. Beauty gave birth to … Read more
Black footed cat Beauty gave birth to 2 kittens. Yesterday one was born alive and sadly a second one today probably was still born. As Beauty still was in labour the whole day (night) yesterday she wasn’t interested to… take care of her kitten. As it was lying far from the mom the whole day, … Read more
As a family, cats are some of the most well-studied animals on Earth, but that doesn’t mean these adept carnivores don’t continue to surprise us. Scientists have announced today the stunning discovery of a new species of cat, long-confused with another. Looking at the molecular data of small cats in Brazil, researchers found that the … Read more
Great news for our Javan Leopard Release project. The Ciremai National Park wants to cooperate with us in the Release Project, allowing us to have at least one, and maybe both, leopards released there. That would be super for Sawal and maybe also Dimas. BUT first habitat assessment needs to be done in this National … Read more
Habitat assessment WE NEED FUNDS AND CAMERATRAPS, THE MORE THE BETTER…. we have 10 cameratraps and it will take 2-3 months to collect the data, with 20 cameratreaps 1 month, etc. And we want to have a… speedy release. Please help out!!! Donations for more JLRP camera traps Habitat Assessment (without camera-traps) that have been … Read more