Wildlife Conservation Network These miniature felines are found in every corner of Categories such as CriticallyEndangered or threatened are Three species of (cats) are currently listed as http://www.wildnet.org/smallcat.htm
Extractions: Asiatic wildcat, Clouded leopard, Fishing cat, Flat-headed cat, Leopard cat, Marbled cat, Pallas cat, Rusty-spotted cat, and Asiatic golden cat. Europe: European wildcat The World Conservation Union is responsible for determining the status of cat species in the wild. Categories such as Critically Endangered or Threatened are used to characterize populations. One category, Data Deficient, means that almost nothing is known about the species. Three species of cats are currently listed as Data Deficient - all are small cats. Jim conducts his own research, focusing on the Andean Mountain Cat and the guigna, and collaborates intensively with local scientists and volunteers who are leading work on other small cat species around the world. Collaboration with local scientists and volunteers has been a key to the success of these small cat studies. Colleagues work in remote areas, collecting valuable data that can be compiled into a larger database of information on these rare cats.
Wildlife Conservation Network lives and behaviors of these magnificent felines, and to educating California audiencesabout wild (cats) for more loss we face if these endangered (cats) are not http://www.wildnet.org/conservationists.htm
Extractions: From the Himalaya to the Savannah - Life in the Wild Peter Matthiessen is a novelist, life-long naturalist, environmental activist, and wilderness traveler whose nonfiction includes The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it. His most recent work is Birds of Heaven, which chronicles his many journeys in search of the world's 15 species of cranes. Among his honors are the Gold Medal in Natural History from the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, the Heinz, John Hay and Society of Conservation Biology awards and the John Burroughs and Christopher medals. He is also a 1991 Laureate of the Global Honor Roll of the United Nations Environment Program. Iain Douglas-Hamilton Walking in Giant Footsteps Iain Douglas-Hamilton has studied and protected the elephants of Africa for nearly 4 decades. He pioneered the study of wild elephants, was the first to alert the world to the devastation created by poachers, and was instrumental in bringing about the worldwide ban on ivory. In 1993 he founded Save The Elephants (STE); the organization continues his leadership in elephant research, education and grassroots conservation.
Day Trips us the sad stories of how the (cats) came to that the situation with abandoned exoticfelines is going and federal laws regulating nonendangered or threatened http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue03/cols.daytrips.html
Extractions: photograph by Gerald E. McLeod At the Texas Exotic Feline Foundation (TEFF) outside of Boyd in North Texas, one of the first things our guide told us was: "We exist here for the cats." The sanctuary is a retirement home for large cats that have been abandoned, neglected, or abused. Many of the animals are on the wildlife endangered or threatened list, and all of them are gorgeous creatures. There is a story in the eyes of every one of the 69 cats housed at the 28-acre facility less than an hour north of Fort Worth. "The cats come from every situation in the world, mostly bad," says Richard Gilbreth, director of the feline rescue facility that is considered the best of its kind in the U.S. "There are more tigers in Texas than people know what to do with," he says. "It's becoming an epidemic." In the wild the cats live about 10 years; in captivity the cats grow to several hundred pounds and live for about 20 years. Gilbreth says they have to turn away 100 to 150 cats a year. Most of the cats at TEFF were born and raised in the U.S. Ten years ago a lion or tiger cub sold for $8,000 to $15,000. "That eliminated a lot of people from the market," he says. Tempted by the prospects of selling two to four cubs a year, breeders jumped into the business. Soon prices dropped to $300 to $500 and the cats became an impulse purchase.
FCF : Resources : Links on responsible captive husbandry of wild felines. of information about all speciesof wild (cats). Preservation Trust Preserving certain endangered species that http://www.felineconservation.org/R3/Resources/Links.html
Extractions: Please Note : The Feline Conservation Federation cannot guarantee the authenticity of documents on the Internet. Links to other web sites do not imply any endorsement of or responsibility for the opinions, ideas, data, or products presented at these locations, or guarantee the validity of the information provided. Links to other web sites are provided solely as a pointers to information that may be useful to individuals interested in wild felines.
LIOC-ESCF : About Us : History and our roots) we added, endangered Species Conservation for individual owners ofwild felines, on the provide permanent identification of their (cats) by tattoo http://www.felineconservation.org/AboutUs/History2.html
Extractions: Continued from History page 1 September 17, l979 saw the passage of the Department of the Interior's final rules on captive - bred wildlife. Gone was the suggestion provision for Captive Self-Sustaining Populations rules, and with it any allowable "trade" in pet wildlife. Ocelots and margays, which were so plentiful, were now in total government control and permits for interstate commerce were not being issued. The decade of the 80's demonstrated just how final these rules were. A stable nucleus of ocelot and margay founding stock were quietly dying off. The result has been a government imposed genetic bottleneck of these magnificent felines. By 1982, it was obvious times and attitudes were changing. So too were the demographics of the Long Island Ocelot Club. There were more other cats than ocelots among the membership. And that membership was no longer centered in Long Island, rather it had become international. It was no longer enough just to have a pet; we must also breed those we possessed and conserve those that remained in the wild. To this end, the Long Island Ocelot Club ceased to be. Keeping the initials LIOC (to honor our Founder and our roots) we added, Endangered Species Conservation Federation, Inc. and incorporated as a non-profit organization. As LIOC's founder felines grew old, members began sharing the medical history and final departure of their beloved companions. In 1985 Births were in abundance, Lil Smith had twin Margays and Jean Hatfield had 2 ocelots in May. In Sept John Perry had geoffroy babies, Jean Hamil had 3 bobcat kittens, the Marshall reported a litter of cougars and jaguars, and Dale and Shirley Jackson had 2 male oncillas. Sasha and Lefty Margays, belonging to Fred Boyajian accompanied Fred to 4 national LIOC conventions passed on in the fall of 1985.
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Phoenix Links To Other Sites (cats) LIOCendangered Species Conservation Federation - an excellent source of informationon all exotic (cats). the Conservation of Exotic felines is a http://www.phoenixexotics.org/plinksl.html
Cornell News: Alien Species Invade of the decline of native species now listed as endangered or threatened Nonnativecats to the rescue? felines can't read law books, but they know a tasty meal http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July02/alien_invaders.hrs.html
Extractions: E-Mail: hrs2@cornell.edu Cornell ecologist David Pimentel examines the invasive (but colorful) weed, purple loosestrife, found growing near the Cornell campus. The plant from Europe is displacing native vegetation in wetlands across North America, degrading food, shelter and nesting sites for wildlife. Nicola Kountoupes/Cornell University Photography At right is his latest book, Biological Invasions: Economic and Environmental Costs of Alien Plant, Animal, and Microbe Species A high-resolution image of the book cover (516 x 771 pixels, 331K) is available here ITHACA, N.Y. As a respite from summertime weed-whacking, fly-swatting and pest-repelling, a new book edited and co-authored by Cornell University ecologist David Pimentel makes compelling reading. But readers of Biological Invasions: Economic and Environmental Costs of Alien Plant, Animal, and Microbe Species
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Extractions: Search for a new word: a b c d ... z Previous Word: margaryize marge unsafe 1. a small american wild cat (felis wiedi syn. felis tigrina), ranging from mexico to brazil. it is spotted with black. called also long-tailed cat. wildcat Games Free Everything The Mammals of Texas - Online Edition. External measurements: total length, 862 mm; tail, 331 mm;
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Extractions: In the U.S. there are approximately 150 zoos accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association that are the front line of defense against the further erosion and loss of many endangered or threatened species of large felines. Their survival plan is almost brutally simple; keep the genetic carriers in isolated captivity until a species management program decides the need for additional specimens. While this is better than rapid species extinction, it offers little to the welfare of the animals, very limited genetic variability, and inadequate gene pool size. Government, having few clear guidelines, limited effectiveness, and often serious conflicts of interest with respect to conservation and species preservation in particular, has abdicated its power to literally hundreds of Non Government Organizations (NGO's) whose survival plans range from fencing off natural habitat, hiring small armies to protect the remaining wildlife, endless studies, to negotiations with governments to become signatories to various agreements purported to solve the pernicious problem of plain old poaching. The NGO's themselves range from highly rational to patently off-focus. One thing they have in common, however, is incessant pleading for money to support activities that are all but impossible to achieve or evaluate within our lifetime.
Wild Cats In Carolina awe as he tried to separate two angry (cats). never got rid of its big felines, butit Bleyman maintained that endangered subspecies' genetic pools were often http://www.discover.com/mar_01/featcats.html
Extractions: Fleet-footed caracals are able to chase down gazelles and knock birds from the air, but to African and Asian farmers, they are merely crop-destroying pests. Laudable as that mission sounds, not every wildlife conservationist has embraced it. That's because the Carnivore Preservation Trust has upended scientific orthodoxy, defiantly dissenting from the principles and methods used by most zoos to raise and breed animals in captivity. While mainstream animal conservationists adhere to the doctrine of having mothers raise their own litters, the trust follows a policy of raising young carnivores by human hand. And while most scientists believe in keeping subspecies lines as pure as possible, the trust intentionally disregards those lines, creating "generic" animals not found in nature. The Carnivore Preservation Trust grew out of the personal passion of the late Michael Bleyman, a gray-bearded geneticist who left his University of North Carolina faculty job in 1975 to follow his real love: studying tigers, jaguars, and other large felines whose survival was threatened in the wild. His interests were only partly academic. "Mike was a scientist who had a strong interest in wildcats, and he wanted to save those cats," recalls Wildt. "But he also liked the excitement of having a 500-pound Siberian tiger in his backyard."
Works In Progress: Species On Ice Among the dozens of friendly felines romping in a A gaur, an endangered species ofox, was cloned by wellstudied mammals as cows and (cats), divert attention http://www.discover.com/sept_01/featworks.html
Extractions: Photograph Courtesy of Audubon Nature Institute Actually, Jazz is the first of his kind, an endangered African wildcat born almost two years ago from a frozen embryo that was implanted in an ordinary house cat. Acting as midwife was Betsy Dresser, director of the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species, on the bayou near New Orleans. Dresser is a leading advocate of efforts to protect rare animals by cloning and other advanced reproductive techniques. Her controversial aim is to provide a last-ditch, high-tech redoubt for species that might otherwise vanish when their habitats do. "We're a safety net for these species," explains Dresser. "I feel like I'm in the emergency room of the conservation movement." The principle of interspecies surrogates was first demonstrated in the 1970s, when an Asian mouflon lamb was born to a domestic wool sheep. In the early 1980s, Dresser and her colleagues at the Cincinnati Zoo coaxed a rare African antelope called a bongo from a doe of a more plentiful species, the eland. A few years later, the Cincinnati team shepherded the birth of an endangered Asian ox called a gaur by a Holstein cow. In 1994, Dresser announced the live birth of a threatened Indian desert cat, delivered by a house cat that had been implanted with a fresh embryo. Jazz represents the next stage in Dresser's vision: living, purring proof that frozen embryos can remain viable after thawing and can develop normally in the womb of another species.
Guardian Unlimited | Special Reports | Special Report: Animal Rights Ongoing news and commentary of UK and international issues covering medical research, wildlife including Category Society Issues Animal Rights News and Media endangered species. (cats). In a league of their own May 4 In the days when we werenot so friendly towards felines, (cats) Protection was there to ensure they didn http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/
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The Peak (30/11/1998) Features: On The Prowl demand for substitutes starts to focus on other large (cats) that are already endangered.Wild felines are endangered from the demand for the illegal pet http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/98-3/issue13/prowl.html
Extractions: vincent lizee The 1996 World Conservation Congress concluded a quarter of all mammal species are endangered . Some of these species are of the biological family of felids, or cats. Some are already extinct like the Barbary lion, the Caspian tiger and the Arizona jaguar. Some seem certain to go extinct within the next decade since the populations are too small for healthy breeding like the Arabian leopard and the Chinese tiger. The future for some 72 per cent of all cat species is uncertain from years of habitat destruction and hunting that have decimated wild cat populations. This grim scenario has compelled some conservationists and other concerned individuals to form an organization specifically dedicated to preserving felines called the International Society for Endangered Cats (ISEC). "I think just a concern for small cats" explains Tania James, B.C. Division director, siting the reason for ISEC's formation. "There are so many other organizations. Everybody has heard of a tiger, everybody has heard of a lion, everybody has heard of a cheetah but very few people have heard of a black footed cat or a sand cat or a Geoffrey's cat or a Pallas' cat." Concern for cat conservation follows from the concern to preserve the biosphere. Cats, big and small, prey on a variety of herbivores that if left unchecked would ravage the plant life that they depend on. Wild rodents would undergo a population explosion pushing them into human settlements to become farming pests and disease carriers. Conservation is important in protecting felines as natural wonders and as icons of strength and prowess as exemplified by their use in emblems, advertising, stories, and novelties made in their image. All of these uses would be lost forever if many feline species become extinct.
Ann Mortifee: Jaguar Support, Main Index. Then, we had to find an endangered specie in our responsibility in private captivehusbandry of wild felines. Wild About (cats) Wild About (cats) is dedicated to http://www.annmortifee.com/JAGUAR/JAGFRONT.html
CPAWS Education - Edu-Action Library - Walking The Line and the relatively mildmannered felines must compete In the meantime, any of thecats that wander in Canada, wolves are considered endangered or threatened http://www.cpawscalgary.org/education/edu-action/2002-1003-endangered-species.ht
Extractions: Edu-Action Listserv Edu-Action Library Walking the Line October 3, 2002 Context: A draft bill to protect endangered species is in legislative limbo right now, but our Prime Minister could kick it back into play. Have interested students write to him, encouraging him to protect their natural heritage by passing the Species at Risk Act (SARA) as soon as possible. Right Honourable Jean Chretien October/November 2002 THE GRIZZLY Unlike the United States, which safeguards species under the federal Endangered Species Act Species At Risk Act As their name suggests, woodland caribou live in mountain forests, where they dine on arboreal lichens, grass, forbs and huckleberry bushes. In early winter, the animals move to lower elevations to avoid deep snow. As the season progresses, however, they climb back up to ridges above 6,000 feet, where their oversized hooves trod the now-hardened, 6-to-12-foot-high snowpack to reach otherwise inaccessible lichens far up in the trees. Except for mountain goats, woodland caribou are the only large animals that tough out winter in the high country. Authorities in British Columbia seem particularly uncertain about how to handle the grizzly hunting question. In February 2001, officials in the province issued what was to be a three-year moratorium on killing the bears. But with the ink barely dry on that edict, a newly elected provincial government lifted the ban that July.
Digimorph - Leopardus Pardalis (ocelot) - Female Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, endangered Resources Branch Listed (cats) of Texasand Arizona recovery plan (with Small Pleistocene felines of North America http://digimorph.org/specimens/Leopardus_pardalis/female/
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Bastrop ISD Animal Links extensive information on the following endangered animals African cat from wild,exotic felines to America's Facts, Biology, Behavior, Conservation, (cats) A to http://www.bastrop.isd.tenet.edu/CIanimals.htm
Extractions: Our Site Department of Curriculum and Instruction Last updated August 7, 2002 Amphibians Insects Birds Mammals Endangered Species Reptiles General Spiders and Scorpions Horses Zoos This web site on amphibian biology and conservation contains information on over 130 species. It provides species descriptions, life history information, conservation status, photos, and literature references. There are photos of over 140 species, range maps of over 300 species, and over 500 bibliographic references. It is searchable by genus, species, common name, family, and order. It is linked to the specimen collections at the American Museum of Natural History, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the California Academy of Sciences.
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Extractions: In this first grade lesson, students will hear stories that illustrate the importance of protecting the earth's resources, write a list of reasons it is important to recycle, clean up litter, keep the air clean, conserve water and trees or protect endangered animals. Then they will produce a letter to persuade their audience to protect the earth and it's resources by telling why it's important and include simple ways it can be accomplished.
