Happy announcement: Two leopard cubs born at Wild Cats World Early Wednesday morning, November 4th, 2015, our dear leopard female Feline gave birth to two gorgeous, dark spotted, cubs. Daddy of the cubs is our male Felipe, who in time will be introduced to his cubs as well as uncle Felix and (surrogate) “sister” Felicia, … Read more
Max – African wild cat June 2015 Max arrived at our project on a “loan” to see if he could get on well with our girls Sid and Louise. He like the other two was born at Cat Conservation Trust, Clifton/Eastern Cape. Max sadly is prone to a stuffed nose caused by some allergy, … Read more
Monday, 19 October 2015, was a very exciting day for all at Wild Cats World and our vet, but also another very important achievement in our leopard project “The other side of the leopard”. Our dear ambassador leopard, Queen Feline, was examined and we decided to have a scan done to know a bit more … Read more
It is obvious that the leopardspecies still is far less understood,and misjudged, compared to all other species. In the wild they for sure are under threat, but also in captivity lots can be improved for the species. There’s so many studies, so-called facts or scientific documents about the leopard. To start another project is only … Read more
All projects mentioned on this website are run by, part of and/or supported by Wild Cats World. All projects have people working on ground level to keep track of the progress and to try and achieve the mission of the project. Coming time the focus will be on the S.A. “Leopard Conservation & Education” Project. Hopefully … Read more
At this moment there’s a lot of work in progress for the new Wild Cats World conservationproject to support the magnificent Pallas Cat (felis manul) in various ways. At this moment lots of ideas are discussed by all involved, like some essential European zoos with pallas cats in their collection, the EEP species comittee of … Read more
Sometimes you seriously wonder if this statement is about to become reality. The species being so vulnerable and threatened, but as for the value of conservation, or (lack of) conservation, and the difficulties of breeding/keeping in captivity and lack of co-operation between the facilities who do breed/keep them. The few years we work with/for these … Read more
With incredible sadness, and sorrow, we have to share with you the sad passing of our male black-footed cat Blacky, due to incurable kidney failure. (picture: last time Blacky did enjoy his fresh meal) The passing of Blacky not only is a huge personal loss for us, WCW management and caretaker, but also a major … Read more
Today (July 20, 2015) we had a new arrival at WCW, “all the way” from CCT (Cat Conservation Trust), male Max arrived. He was glad to be out of the transportbox, and started exploring his new territory (or for now just part of it) straight on. Of course his mind was set on neighbourgirls Sid … Read more
As part of a conservation and breeding project for the endangered black footed cats (felis negripes), our 3 ambassadors Blacky, Beauty and Diva were temporarily relocated to Cats Conservation Trust. Now we all agreed it was time for them to move back “home” again, and back in our (WCW) care. Firstly the two B’s arrived … Read more