Proposals by members and affiliates of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group are posted here, beginning with the most recent additions. Please contact the project leaders directly for further information about their work. To donate to one of these projects, or to add your proposal, email CAT Director Kristin Nowell.

Proposal documents are in MS Word unless otherwise indicated.

Distribution, population status and conservation genetics of threatened and endangered wild cats in Thailand. Conservation genetics of wild and captive cats in Thailand. Lon Grassman, and colleagues from the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University, Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Ecology and population status of the serval Leptailurus serval in Luambe National Park, Zambia. Christine Thiel. A project of the Zoological Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn & Luangwa Wilderness e.V. in cooperation with Zoo Cologne.

Ecology and conservation of wild cats on Peninsular Malaysia. Andrew Jennings, Géraldine Veron, and Zubaid Akbar, Krau Wildlife Sanctuary, Malaysia.

The spatial and behavioural ecology of leopard cats in human-modified habitats in Sumatra. Dawn Scott, University of Brighton.

Census and monitoring of the Zakouma National Park lion population, southeastern Chad. Nathalie Vanherle, African Lion Working Group.

Monitoring of leopards of the Gede Pangango National Park using the "stay and watch" method. Rajindra Tribuana and the Felidae Conservation Team (FECOTE), Java, Indonesia.

Felids of the Serra do Tabuleiro State Park. Marcos Tortato, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Baiting the endangered wild Persian leopards (Panthera pardus saxicolor) for their urgent conservation in Armenia. Igor Khorozyan, Armenian Leopard Conservation Society, Yerevan, Armenia.

Small carnivores in the semi-arid tracts of western India: an assessment of conservation status. Shomita Mukherjee, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, India.

Reproduction, genetics and disease threats: the Okavango Lion Project. Pieter W. Kat and Kate Nicholls.

Production support for the Cat Specialist Group newsletter Cat News. IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group Co-Chairs Drs. Urs Breitenmoser and Christine Breitenmoser-Würsten.

Project Jaguar. Denis Torres at Fundacion Andigena, Venezuela (PDF file, 400 KB)

Effects of native forest gradients on the diversity of vulnerable mammals in Southern Brazil. Marcelo Mazzolli, Projeto Puma.

India Caracal Study. Shekhar.k.s, Wildlife Researcher, Indian Institute of Forest Management, in collaboration with Dr. Jim Sanderson.

Conservation of Wild Cats in Sri Lanka. IUCN: Dr. Channa Bambaradeniya.

Conservation Genetics and Behavioural Ecology of the African Wild Cat. Endangered Wildlife Trust and the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with South African National Parks and the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Botswana: Drs. M.Gus Mills and Paulette Bloomer.

Movement Patterns of the Margay (Leopardus wiedii) at El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, Northeast Mexico. Proyecto Sobre los Felinos Silvestres de México: M.S. Arturo Caso.

Competition in Carnivores: the Ecology of Co-existence (photo trapping of jaguars, pumas and ocelots). Virginia Technical University: Dr. Marcella Kelly.

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