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Previously featured news on the Felidae site:
Focus on Tigers
•New
Malayan tiger subspecies discovered by geneticists, named for Cat
Specialist Group Chair emeritus Peter Jackson. The Star Online.
The paper was published the December issue of Public
Library of Science Biology.
•CAT Director Kristin
Nowell featured in Penthouse. Readers claim that
it's the well-written articles, and this one is a good review of
the importance of fakes in the Asian aphrodesiacs market.
•Far
From A Cure: The Tiger Trade Revisited is the TRAFFIC report
referred to in the article.
Focus on Snow Leopards
•Pioneering documentary captures wild snow leopards on film,
with the help of the Snow
Leopard Conservancy. Silent Roar: Searching for the Snow
Leopard airs on the Nature
series, PBS - the film's website features a short video clip.
Focus on the African lion
•The
lion's status is re-assessed as Vulnerable due to a declining population
for the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
•The
lion population of West Africa is assessed as regionally Endangered
due to small population size. Article by Hans Bauer and Kristin
Nowell in the Autumn 2004 edition of Cat News.
•Thailand's
notorious Sri Racha Tiger farm hit by avian flu virus Bangkok
Post
•Cat Woman: Profile
of FFI's Debbie Martyr in Sumatra. The Guardian
•Five
long-time tiger poachers arrested and sentenced in Sumatra Sumatran
Tiger Conservation Program press release, via CITES news "Let
this result be evidence that Indonesia is committed to halting poaching
and illegal trade of wildlife," stated the Director General
of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation, Koes Saparjadi. "All
the recommendations made in the 2004 TRAFFIC report have been our
official policy for years, and we take our responsibilities seriously."
•Read TRAFFIC's
report on the illegal trade threat to the Sumatran tiger
•The Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2004
was introduced into the US House of Representatives in July. Click
here to read the text, which if passed will provide US government
funding support for conservation of a number of cat species included
on the IUCN Red List. Write your
congressperson!
 •Time
magazine's cover story on big cats is the talk of the international
cat conservation community... Nowhere
to Roam. Wildlife reserves alone cannot protect big cats - A look
at new ways to save them.
Written by Terry McCarthy, August 15 2004.
•Cats
up Close: Time's photo essay with range maps and cat facts
•Pakistan's Hushe village receives the Wildlife
Conservation Hero award from the Walt Disney Wildlife Conservation
Fund for releasing unharmed a snow leopard they captured in their
corral after it had killed many of their sheep and goats. This story
and more in Snow
Leopard Conservancy news.
•Predator
Conservation Trust focuses on large carnivore conservation in
Namibia. Read Flip Stander and Lise Hanssen's research report, Population
ecology of desert-adapted lions in the Kunene region, Namibia
(PDF, 1.3 Mb)
•Cat Specialist
Group member and tiger researcher Kae Kawanishi featured in Dec
2003 Outside magazine as one of "25 sports and adventure
goddesses who rule"
•Endangered
species: farms may be selling tigers. The Nation, Bangkok
•Learn more about
illegal trade in tiger parts for traditional Asian tonics: Kristin
Nowell's TRAFFIC report Far
From A Cure: The Tiger Trade Revisited
Two important
new reports on the snow leopard:
•Snow
Leopard Survival Strategy, edited by Tom McCarthy and Guillaume
Chapron, resulting from the Snow Leopard Survival Summit held in
Seattle in 2002
•Fading
Footprints: The Killing and Trade of Snow Leopards by TRAFFIC's
Stepahanie Theile
•Press coverage of the two reports: BBC
and Washington
Times
•New website for the Snow
Leopard Network
SARS linkage
leads to unprecedented crackdown on wildlife trade and consumption
in China - but China
lifted ban on wildlife too soon, says WHO official Singapore
Straits Times
•Over 90%
of Guangdong residents support wildlife trade bans for public health
reasons, yet authorities drop the 2-month old restrictions in a
surprise decision, opposed by the University of Hong Kong research
team which originally isolated SARS coronavirus from palm civets
South China Morning Post
•Wildlife
markets and disease transmission Wildlife
Conservation Society press release
•Digest of June-July
news reports on this issue
•Cat
Trade Issues at CITES: summaries of decisions taken
at the the 12th CITES meeting of the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species and links to official documents
North African Cheetah
•Cheetah
immune system under study - Gulf News Online
•Read the project proposal: Genetic studies of Asiatic and
North African cheetahs by AnneMarie Drieux-Dumont (project
proposal, MS Word doc), sponsored by CAT and the Barbara Delano
Foundation
Andean
Mountain Cat
•Guillaume Chapron has digitized and made available
on his website <www.carnivoreconservation.org>
the first video footage of the Andean mountain cat, taken in 1999
by Jim Sanderson, sponsored by CAT and the Leonard X. Bosack and
Bette M. Kruger Foundation.
• The first status survey of this Endangered
small cat has been completed in Peru. Read the final report (MS
Word) by Daniel
Cossíos Meza and Analí Madrid Rivera
(2003):
•Andean
mountain cat (Oreailurus jacobita) and other Andean carnivores
status survey in Ayacucho, Arequipa, Puno and Tacna departments,
Peru.
•Photos
from the survey (MS Word document, 700 KB)
Snow Leopard
•Cracking
down on illegal snow leopard trade in Kyrgyzstan: Sultan Jumagulov
for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
•NABU Snow Leopard
Project in Kyrgyzstan
•Snow
Leopard Conservancy
•Wildlife
Inc.- Silicon Valley business whizzes put their savvy to protecting
endangered species around the world -- Wildlife
Conservation Network in the San Francisco Chronicle
Tiger
in Cambodia
•Cambodia
Community Wildlife Ranger Program 2001-2002 report (MS
Word document)
•Clawing
back: CAT's innovative Cambodia Community Wildlife Ranger Program
cited in ExxonMobil's Nov 28 Thanksgiving announcement in the New
York Times
•Exxon/Mobil
Save the Tiger Fund says efforts to save endangered tigers are working
Environment News Service
•CAT
Cambodia Community Wildlife Rangers project page
•Cambodia
Dept of Forestry and Wildlife project page
Status of the family Felidae
Kristin Nowell's two recent articles from Cat
News (37):
•Revision
of the Felidae Red List of Threatened Species
•The
Cat Specialist Group Digital Library as a measure of cat conservation
effort
•Access
the IUCN Red List database
•Access
the Cat Specialist Group Digital Library
•Coverage of the new Red List and the Critically
Endangered status of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) from
Reuters, BBC,
New Scientist,
and the Large
Carnivore Initiative for Europe
•Cat documents from CITES -
the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species - meeting
in Santiago November 3-15 2002
•October 29-31 2002
Iberian lynx conference in Spain: details at CarnivoreConservation.Org
•International
Snow Leopard Trust's Irbis Enterprises offers herder-made handicrafts
to protect snow leopards in Mongolia: Wall
Street Journal article and CNN
coverage
•From the archives: CAT sends an email
from Mongolia to Stanford Magazine
•Two
live young snow leopards seized in Kyrgyzstan BBC
•Jaguar
sighting sign of success for US-MX cross-border conservation
•Spain
announces major new conservation initiative for the Critically Endangered
Iberian Lynx
•More
people killed by tigers this year in Bangladesh
•New project
for the Endangered Sri Lanka Leopard launched
•Cat
specialists report African lion numbers declining
•Hunan
province government announces new conservation initiative for the
Critically Endangered South China Tiger
•How
to survive a cougar attack: story in Salon.com
Camera
trap finds jaguar in Arizona
•Tiger, Tiger in the Raw
CAT's Hunter Weiler helps the Phnom
Penh Post take a hard look at
the effectiveness of tiger conservation in Cambodia
Amur tiger and leopard news from Jilin province, NE China:
•Tiger,
wounded by poachers, kills Huichin Nature Reserve worker
•Chinese
TV cameramen encounter a rare wild tiger in the Changai Mountains
•Jilin farmers encouraged to release livestock, for compensation,
into reserve to help tigers and leopards survive winter deep snows
Report 1
Report 2
from the China Daily•Elderly lion which died
recently in Kabul Zoo not descended from now-extinct native Afghanistan
lions BBC
News
•National
Geographic article about Asiatic lions (June 2001)
•National
Geographic news about Canada lynx population genetics, and genetic
analysis scandal, in US
•Critically
endangered Iran cheetah featured in the New York Times
•Satellite
collars used in bobcat study
Mike Valent's research in the New Jersey Star-Ledger
•Unusual African lioness "adopts"
a young antelope The
Nation and BBC
•Update
on this story
 •Camera
traps find leopard in Iran cheetah habitat Tehran Times
•"Desperate"
Iberian lynx plight flagged at Bern Convention
Large
Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE) report
•Time
for tigers
WCS-led tiger project in the Russian Far East
featured in Wildlife Conservation magazine
•Human-tiger
conflict in Bangladesh
•Poachers
take a toll on Cambodian tigers
CAT in the New York Times - see our
new
map of tiger poaching in the Cardamom mountains region
•Snow
leopard skull for sale in lawless Jalalabad
•See the Snow
Leopard Conservancy's wild snow leopard video, captured by remote
infrared-triggered camera
•Iran
cheetah program joined by Wildlife
Conservation Society & the Cheetah
Conservation Fund
•Indian
Sundarbans census finds tiger population stable
•Rarity
means riches in Afghanistan
The Economist finds stuffed snow leopard for
sale
•The
tiger's best friend
Valmik Thapar profiled in International Wildlife
•New
book on tigers by leading specialist Ullas Karanth
•Public
comment extended on Canada lynx mgt in US
US Forest Service Northern Rockies lynx amendment
website
•Lions
face extinction in west and central Africa
African
Lion Working Group in New Scientist
•Dealing
with cattle-killing lions
Reports from the Caprivi region in The Namibian
•Trophy
hunters dart jaguars for conservation & research in Mexico
Gerardo Ceballos Gonzales in Scientific
American
•WCS
Jaguar Conservation Small Grants Program
•Northern
Michigan is cougar country
DNA scat analysis, tracks & sightings in
the Detroit Free Press
•Florida
Panther National Wildlife Refuge seeks major expansion
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Oct 27 2001
•Snow
leopard threatened in troubled Afghanistan
Intl Snow
Leopard Trust in UK Daily Telegraph
•Leopards
featured in October National Geographic
•Tigers
better protected in India's Panna Reserve
Ragu Chundawat at London press conference
•Tiger
situation in Thailand
Tony Lynam and Steve Galster in NPR's Living
on Earth
• Illegal trade in live cheetahs
in Somalia
Video report from the BBC, Real Audio file
• Breitenmosers
named Co-Chairs of the Cat Specialist Group
Peter Jackson presents his successors in Cat News 34
• Cats
attracted to catnip by its oil's mosquito repellant properties?
New research at Iowa State University (Aug 2001)
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