Big Cat Threats and Solutions
The main threats facing the big cats are all anthropogenic, or human caused, and fall under the categories of poaching or trophy hunting,...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 26, 20202 min read
Family Cat Tree
The seven large bodied cats are in the Felidae family (Turner, 1997). They are composed of three genuses, Panthera, Puma, and Acinonyx....
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Tabby Reed
Oct 25, 20202 min read
Species Survival Plan- Snow Leopards
In the United States the Association of Zoos and Aquariums has Species Survival Plans, to help animals in captivity be a spokesperson for...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 24, 20202 min read
Climate Change- Snow Leopards
Climate change is impacting all wildlife, including the snow leopard. Just within the last 20 years the Tibetan plateau, which has about...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 23, 20201 min read
International Snow Leopard Day
Happy International Snow Leopard Day! October 23rd is International Snow Leopard Day. The Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Protection Plan...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 22, 20202 min read
Snow Leopard Habitat Loss
Snow leopards are suffering from habitat loss caused by encroaching human population, development of infrastructure, roads, and mining...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 21, 20202 min read
Snow Leopard Prey Loss
Prey loss is another big threat that snow leopards face. Snow leopards occur in environments with relatively low productivity, leading to...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 20, 20202 min read
Snow Leopard Poaching
Poaching is a major threat to snow leopards. Snow leopards are being poached and forced into the illegal wildlife trade for their fur and...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Snow Leopard General Information
The Snow Leopard is known as the ‘mountain ghost’ because they are so elusive and mysterious (Panthera Snow Leopard, 2020). Their...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 18, 20203 min read
International Cheetah Day
International Cheetah Day is celebrated on December 4th. December 4th was chosen because it was the birthday of Khayam, one of the first...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 17, 20202 min read
Cheetah Ecotourism
Ecotourism is nature-based tourism that educates people with minimal-impact management and contributes to conservation (Buckley, 1994;...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 16, 20203 min read
Illegal Cheetah (Pet) Trade
The illegal pet trade is an increasing threat impacting cheetahs. For thousands of years the elite of the ancient world had cheetahs in...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 15, 20202 min read
Cheetah Prey Loss
Prey loss is another threat impacing cheetahs. Humans are overhunting cheetah prey species (Panthera Cheetah, 2020). Development and...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 14, 20202 min read
Cheetah Poaching
Cheetahs face poaching, retaliating and preemptive killings as a threat (CCB About Cheetahs, 2020). The spotted cheetah coat is sought...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 13, 20202 min read
Cheetah Habitat Loss
Habitat loss is one of the big threats facing cheetahs (CCF About, 2020; Mara-Meru Cheetah Project, 2016). Cheetahs need plenty of space...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 12, 20202 min read
Cheetah General Information
It is believed that there are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the wild (Panthera Cheetah, 2020). The International Union for Conservation of...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 11, 20202 min read
International Puma Day
International puma, cougar, and mountain lion day is August 26th! The biggest threats facing pumas are habitat loss, wildfire threats,...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 10, 20202 min read
Puma- Florida Panthers
Florida panthers are the only pumas that live on in the eastern United States and are only found in southern Florida (NWF Florida...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 9, 20202 min read
Puma Prey Loss
Prey loss is another threat facing pumas. Pumas will follow their prey, but when there is no prey left they begin to move closer to...
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Tabby Reed
Oct 8, 20203 min read
Pumas and Poaching
Poaching or trophy hunting and depredation permits have all impacted the puma population across the United States. Between 1907 and 1972...
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