We can say fully YES to this. Just for the many people who contact us regularly, how they can start a facility, how they can keep big or wild cats, if we want to sponsor meat for their cats? Just for the ones, who will always be there, having a say…..here’s something to realize, and … Read more
Here’s the first pictures of the amazing leopards Olive, Beau, Bahati and Solo in their new huge camp, Phase I of their re-wilding programme, though the people involved instantly saw the wild already is truly in them. The four young leopards were born in our facility, with the sole purpose of being released, and it … Read more
The four young leopards born and raised (by their mothers/parents) at Wild Cats World have been successfully relocated to a huge re-wilding (phase I) camp in Mpumalanga Province, where lots of rehabilitation and releasing of leopards already had been done. Happy to say Olive, Solo, Beau & Bahati are settling in nicely, but we didn’t … Read more
The info on this sign is shared at our S.A. conservation project, to avoid misinterpreting, unintentionally or intentionally, the essential conservation work we do for the leopard species (Panthera Pardus), the South African leopard, but also our support to the Javan Leopard, Indian Leopard, Nepal Leopard but also other subspecies, if ngo’s need our support … Read more
Conservation of the smallest (spotted) cat of South Africa, second smallest of the world, is extremely essential. So we are glad to be part of this. Our cats (couple and kittens) will be part of the BFC stress measurement, the research done by/for University of Pretoria. This because there’s such a huge decline in captive … Read more
It is a male & a female…. 28/12/2017: Our black footed cat kittens, 13 weeks old, are now officially sexed. Like it already crossed our mind, it is one boy and one girl. So: if anyone has a great suggestion for appropriate names??? We are still thinking ourselves too….Names of the parents are Lilly & … Read more
On Thursday October 28th our black-footed cat female Lilly gave birth to 2 kittens. It is her first litter (proud daddy is our male Spotty) and she was a caring and very protective mom from the start. Since black-footed cats and more so their kittens are very vulnerable to diseases, often causing a premature death, we didn’t … Read more
With the end of another year coming close, I like to look back on the year 2017 and look ahead to a brandnew year 2018. Looking back on 2017, we look back with mixed feelings. On the whole we had a good and stable year. Highlights were the births at our leopards, servals and black-footed … Read more
2018: different mission, vision and pursue of (certain) projects of Wild Cats World. Watch this space and page for more info next year. At this moment lots going on behind the scenes, (difficult) decisions made!!! No change as for: wanting the best for the (endangered) cat(species) in the wild and in captivity.
With their immense home ranges, Black-footed Cats spend about 70% of the night hunting. They move between 4.5 and 16 km, averaging 8.5 km per night. These distances represent odometer readings of the tracking vehicle, while 16 km moved by the truck would correspond to more than 30 km moved by the cat zig-zagging between … Read more