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Last week we received the interim report from the ZSL Nepal team that are using their WildCats grant in the Parsa National Park (PNP) to continue monitoring the tiger population...
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Two men were arrested on Wednesday 11th August in possession of a skin and skeleton of an adult Sumatran tiger. Following an investigation which started in the west of...
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Many members of the public like to use Global Tiger Day as a focus to do something for the wildlife they love. Here is the story of one mother, artist...
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WildCats office blog - we are blessed to be based in an institution where visiting academics, scientists and conservationists are invited to talk about their work. Radio collared tiger in...
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Tayto Park made it into the WildCats top 10 donors this year when it pledged to support Amur leopard and tiger conservation with €10,000 a year for the next three...
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Many people ask how we select projects to support, and as we are starting the process for selecting next year’s proposals, Crissie suggested this might be the topic of our...
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A report just published by the IUCN warns "Banning palm oil would most likely increase the production of other oil crops to meet demand for oil, displacing rather than halting...
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Shepreth Wildlife Conservation Charity, the charitable arm of Shepreth Wildlife Park does it again with an outstanding donation of £4,000 to WildCats Conservation Alliance. The donation was raised over...
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Evaluating the effect of forest loss and agricultural expansion on Sumatran tigers from scat surveys
A new conservation paper has used Sumatran tiger genetics from poo to analyse how tiger populations across the island of Sumatra have been affected by high rates of habitat loss…
Chessington Zoo has committed £20,400 to Amur tiger conservation this year through WildCats Conservation Alliance after the launch of its new tiger exhibit. Chessington's Conservation Fund is donating the money...
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Abstract Wild, solitary felids demonstrate a variety of spacing patterns, with diversity in spatial organization largely attributed to variations in abundance and distribution of important resources, particularly prey. We examined...
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A huge thank you to Knowsley Safari Park which has made its first donation to WildCats Conservation Alliance to celebrate the opening of its brand new tiger exhibit.
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In late March, illegal loggers who had set up camp in the Merangin District of Kerinci Seblat National Park were given 36 hours notice to quit before the local police...
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The All-India Tiger Estimation, 2018 exercise promises not just to be hi-tech, but will also be far more accurate and precise than ever before. Officers from National Tiger Conservation Authority…
Lingkar final 2017
https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/10/LingkarInstitutefinalreport2017.pdfFFI/Lingkar final 2017
https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/WildCats/ProjectReports/Indonesia/FFIKerinciTigersAucklandFinal20162017edited.pdf
Sahil Nijhawan PhD, writes about the novel methods of counting animals devised to assist his study of tigers in the remote area of north eastern India. Arunachal Pradesh, India In the...
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Abstract Habitat loss is the greatest threat to large carnivores around the world. Maintenance of functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes is important for long-term species persistence. Here, we merge landscape...
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Abstract Sporadic sightings of the endangered Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica along the China-Russia border during the late 1990s sparked efforts to expand this subspecies distribution and abundance by restoring...
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Aaranyak interim 2017
https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/WildCats/ProjectReports/India/AaranyakIndo-Bhutan-Tiger_Mid-TermReport2017.pdfAbstract We studied the diet of the Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) in Chitwan National Park, Nepal, by identifying 109 prey items from 85 tiger scats. Tigers in this region...
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Abstract The continuing development of improved capture–recapture (CR) modeling techniques used to study apex predators has also limited robust temporal and cross-site analyses due to different methods employed. We develop...
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Examining the shifting patterns of poaching from a long-term law enforcement intervention in Sumatra
Abstract Current levels of illegal wildlife trade for many in-demand species are unsustainable and place them at a heightened risk of extinction. While several Asian protected areas standout for their...
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ZSL Nepal final 2017
https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/WildCats/ProjectReports/Nepal/ZSLNepalFStrengtheningAnti-poachingMeasuresFinalReport2016-17editedforweb.pdfAbstract Meeting global and regional environmental targets is challenging, given the multiplicity of stakeholders and their diverse and often competing policy agendas and objectives. Relatively few studies have sought to...
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