The crisis for the world’s wild cat populations is very real. Habitat loss due to human encroachment has drastically reduced the numbers of these animals. The fact that they do not differentiate between wild prey and domestic livestock has increasingly put them at odds with ranchers and farmers. Their often spectacular skins have long been prized by hunters and collectors alike. Poaching is widespread.
Fauna & Flora International has a long history of involvement in the conservation of big cats: from our origins in Africa where we have long-established programmes conserving lions and cheetah through to our programme in the Americas where the team focuses on landscape conservation in areas that safeguard flagship species such as the jaguar.
Many wild cat species face the possibility of extinction. For some - the tiger, Iberian lynx and snow leopard - the threat is grave. It is likely that these species will become extinct in the wild unless the current decline in numbers is reversed.
Fauna & Flora International’s involvement in wild cat conservation represents a long-term and wide ranging commitment. Click on a project below for further details:
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