FELIDAE FEATURE PHOTO GALLERY

Baby margay (Leopardus wiedii) in a hollow tree trunk with the remains of an avian meal (Pyrrhura frontalis, a little parrot) brought by its mother, São Joaquim National Park, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Photo: Luiz Guilherme Marins de Sá

While collecting information also about the small wild cats in the area, Luiz's Projeto Leão Baio focuses primarily on developing solutions to the problems of puma (Puma concolor) predation on livestock on ranches surrounding the National Park

Other conservationists working on the critical problem of puma conservation in its southernmost Brazilian range include longtime Cat Specialist Group member Peter Crawshaw, whose camera trap captured this nightime image of a young male puma. His study area in São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, was host to the recent regional Cat SG/South American Cat Conservation Alliance meeting - Status and Conservation Needs of the Neotropical Felids
Download Peter Crawshaw's progress reports to CAT:
•October 2004
•2003 report and photos from the report
•2002 project proposal

And Cat SG member Marcelo Mazzolli's Projeto Puma also works in the forest-ranch matrix of Brazil's Santa Catarina state.

Please help support the important work of Brazil's cat conservationists!

Felidae Feature Photo Gallery next page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7

CAT Home