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- The world's least-known feline, the endangered flat-headed cat, has fewer than 2,500 mature individuals left in the wild. Destruction of the wetlands on which they depend, in their home range of the inland peat swamps and mangrove forests of Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia, has led to the loss of flat-headed cats.
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Following an international Small Wild Cat Conservation Summit in 2019, researchers and conservationists delineated the primary threatsto small cats: habitat loss and degradation, human-small wild cat conflict, hunting and poaching, and vehicle collisions topped the list. Little has changed since then. “In Asia, the biggest threats facing small cats...
Wetlands are one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems, with 35% lost globally since 1970; they’re disappearing three times faster than forests, posing escalating risks for cat species that specialize there. In Nepal, the wetlands-loving fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) is endangered. Confined to the western Terai region, it’s thought to e...
While conservationists are familiar with imminent small cat threats such as hunting, new perils loom that are poorly understood. This year, for example, the Stockholm Resilience Centre announced that the world has surpassed the safe Earth operating space for the release of “novel entities” into the environment. Urban and industrial wastewater pollu...
Experts say climate change is a looming threat for the small cats — especially wetland specialist species. “As the [coastal] water level increases, a lot of the habitat for them is going to disappear,” says Wong. Species living at higher elevation are also expected to suffer habitat reductions as the world warms and mountain-adapted species move to...
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Panthera’s Small Cats Program creates targeted conservation strategies for the world’s most threatened small cat species by understanding their unique ecological needs and most urgent threats. Of the world’s 40 wild cat species, 33 are classified as small cats.
May 15, 2020 · Half the size of a house cat, with a bottlebrush tail and a cartoon-cute face striped with black, the güiña holds the record for smallest wildcat in the Americas. Its petite stature—just under...
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Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation (SWCCF) is leading the way in protecting small endangered cats around the world. Small cat species of the world: South America : Andean cat, Geoffroy’s cat, Güiña, Jaguarundi, Margay, Ocelot, Oncilla (two species), and Pampas Cat.
It is the smallest wild cat in Asia and rivals the black-footed cat as the world's smallest wild cat. It is 35 to 48 cm (14 to 19 in) in length, with a 15 to 30 cm (5.9 to 11.8 in) tail, and weighs only 0.9 to 1.6 kg (2.0 to 3.5 lb).
