Siberian Lynx Common Name: Eurasian Lynx, Siberian Lynx Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrata) Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: Felinae (Lynx) Species: lynx Misc: The debate continues whether or not the Siberian Lynx is in fact a separate species from the Canadian and Iberian Lynxes, or merely a sub-species. Experts are evenly divided…
Iriomote Cat Common Name: Iriomote Cat Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrata) Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: Felinae (Prionailurus) Species: bengalensis iriomotensis Photo by C. Allan Morgan Misc: This cat was originally thought to be a unique species based on some of its characteristics and the fact that it is limited to the Iriomote…
It Doesn’t Get Any Greener Than This Big Cat Rescue is committed to protecting exotic cats from captivity and in the wild and some may think that we put cats ahead of people, but that’s not true. Protecting habitat where cats live free is crucial to saving the planet for all of us because our…
Jamie and Justin See Big Cats in Africa https://youtu.be/mOPvxrd1lnw Big Cat Rescue President, Jamie Veronica, and her husband, Dr. Justin Boorstein saw more big cats in one week than most people see in a lifetime of visits to South Africa in this Cat Chat episode where we review their photos.
Human-wildlife conflicts vary from “significant crop and forestry destruction to disease transmission, collisions with vehicles and aircraft, nuisance behavior in urban settings, damage to buildings, predation on livestock and game species and attacks on humans” (Massei et al. 2010). “As burgeoning human populations move further into previously uninhabited areas,” conflicts and the frequency of these…
Africa’s lion population plummets by two thirds in 50 years Nickson Parmisa / Wildlife Direct This lioness was killed on June 20, 2012, along with her sister and four cubs in Sholinge, Kenya, just outside Nairobi National Park. The lionesses had gone into a cattle area to teach the cubs to hunt. By Miguel…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Cruel world of the tiger trade By KATE JACKSON Published: 24 May 2010 IN A dingy market stall in southern Tibet, a trader empties out a sack full of bones. These pitiful relics were once a magnificent tiger, roaming wild and free. Now sold on the black market to be used in…
NOTE: The Spanish film, “El lince perdido” (English: “The Missing Lynx”) ended up not being one of the 5 Oscar nominees for Animated Feature Film. It had previously won a Goya, which is Spain’s equivalent of an Oscar. 20 films vie for animated Oscar Published: Nov. 11, 2009 at 2:32 PM BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov….
Update: Big Cat Rescue’s participation in WWF Cambodia project “The dogs left for Cambodia yesterday fully trained on your scats; thank you once again!” Barney Long, Senior Program Officer – WWF Asian Species Conservation wrote to Big Cat Rescue today. Marie and I were excited to hear the scat detection dogs are on their way to…
How does picking up after our leopards help save tigers in Indochina?? Big Cat Rescue was recently contacted by the Sr. Program Officer of World Wildlife Fund’s Asian Species Conservation Program asking for assistance with a major initiative in tiger conservation. In mid-December, WWF will begin their 5 month program “Tiger Conservation in the Cambodian…