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WildCats Conservation Alliance 2022 Impact Report

By amyvangelderNews

All WildCats Conservation Alliance projects are subject to rigorous scrutiny to ensure they are having maximum conservation impact. We have produced a document that illustrates the various ways that our...

27th July 2023

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Are there more tigers or are we just better at counting them?

By amyvangelderBlog

Tiger numbers potentially increased 40% in seven years - from 3,200 in 2015 to 4,500 in 2022 - representing the first climb in decades (according to a 2022 announcement by...

23rd May 2023

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Northeast China showing signs of stable habitat for migrating tigers and leopards

By amyvangelderNews, WCS China

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been working in Northeast China since 1998 and in the Hunchun Nature Reserve (HNR) since its creation in 2001. The reserve is an important...

23rd August 2022

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The legacy of Tiger #3

By amyvangelderNews, WCS China

The Wildlife Conservation Society in China has been conducting systematic camera trap monitoring of Amur leopards and Amur tigers in Hunchun, northeast China, since 2013. They religiously check their network...

19th August 2022

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WildCats Conservation Alliance 2021 Impact Report

By amyvangelderNews

WildCats Impact 2021 How you can help Support our work You can directly fund conservation project with 100% of donations going straight to the project. Donate Today! Stay in touch...

13th July 2022

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The Growth of Amur leopards & tigers in China

By estherconwayAmur leopard, News, WCS China

Northeast China has been identified as an important destination for big cats dispersing from source sites in Russia. With support from WildCats Conservation Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has documented...

12th April 2022

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How do you count tigers? India’s national tiger count

By amyvangelderBlog

Tiger populations plummeted from around 100,000 individuals in the early 20th century to 3,000 individuals in 2010, occupying just 7% of their original range. We were facing the very real...

9th April 2022

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Podcast: Are we making tigers and their prey sick? Pt. 1 African Swine Fever

By amyvangelderBlog

While global attention is currently focused on COVID-19, a disease that has jumped from animals to humans, it is important to remember that diseases that breach the species barrier also...

23rd February 2022

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WildCats Conservation Alliance 2020 Impact Report

By amyvangelderNews

How you can help Support our work You can directly fund conservation project with 100% of donations going straight to the project. Donate Today! Stay in touch Sign up for...

30th November 2021

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Amur leopards of Korea’s past could hold clues to the species survival

By amyvangelderAmur leopard, News

Study led by ZSL and UCL teams shows that Amur leopards historically roamed within the city walls of Seoul, Korea. Historic accounts could help to teach us how to better...

19th November 2021

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Zoo Conservation Activities for tigers and Amur leopards

By amyvangelderNews

Zoos are major contributors to the conservation of wild animals donating over US$350 million a year to wildlife conservation. In addition to raising vital funds, zoos also contribute to conservation...

16th November 2021

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Lumpy skin disease and its impact on tigers in Thailand

By amyvangelderFreeland, News

From canine distemper to African swine fever, diseases have always been a considerable threat to global tiger populations. But while the world focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, conservationists in Thailand...

29th October 2021

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Tiger conservation in Nepal – A roaring success

By amyvangelderNews, ZSL Nepal

Dedicated conservation efforts have resulted in Parsa National Park becoming one of the most important tiger recovery sites in Nepal. The history Since 2015 WildCats has been funding work to...

30th September 2021

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A COVID & Conservation Ouroboros

By amyvangelderFFI, News

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought undeniable, substantial socio-economic turmoil around the world. But what impact has it had on environmental systems and their conservation? Much has been written about the...

11th September 2021

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Big cats without passports – Fledgling populations of Amur tigers in China

By amyvangelderNews, WCS China

The present-day represents a pivotal moment for big cat conservation in northeast China as tigers and leopards continue to disperse from source populations in Russia. With support from the WildCats...

24th August 2021

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ZSL Nepal final report 2020

https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/04/ZSLNepal_SecuringthefutureofTigersFinal-20.pdf

24th August 2021

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Population monitoring in the Russian Far East

By amyvangelderNews, WCS Russia

For nearly twenty years, WCS Russia has sought to institutionalise rigorous methods of population monitoring in the Russian Far East. In their half-yearly interim report, the team based at Land...

13th August 2021

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Swiss franc to support conservation

By estherconwayNews

Amur tiger caught on camera in 2021 in China © WCS The Swiss Walter Zoo is the mountain top home to Amur tigers and Amur leopards - ambassador animals for...

2nd August 2021

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The perils of population monitoring

By estherconwayBlog

An Unexpected Complication in Amur leopard population monitoring this winter by Petr Mametiev, WCS Russia Amur leopard monitoring © WCS Russia In mid-January 2021, we arrived at Land of the...

7th June 2021

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Monitoring Amur leopards: Dale Miquelle

By estherconwayAmur leopard, Blog

by Dale Miquelle PhD When we establish a monitoring program to determine population trends for an endangered species, we often think of it as a necessary early warning system for...

17th May 2021

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Amur leopard and tiger populations in China

By estherconwayAmur leopard, News, WCS China (Monitoring) Reports

The latest report to WildCats from WCS on the Amur leopard and tiger populations in China contains positive news. WCS has been working in northeast China since 1998 and were...

10th May 2021

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Amur leopard conservation

By estherconwayAmur leopard, News, WCS Russia

WCS in Russia (ANO WCS) want to secure the future for Amur leopards and tigers in Southwest Primorye and neighbouring lands of Jilin Province in China. One way that they...

5th May 2021

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Environmental factors, human presence and prey interact to explain patterns of tiger presence in Eastern Thailand

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Thailand is one of the last strongholds for tigers Panthera tigris in mainland Southeast Asia. Evidence suggests heterogeneity in tiger presence in a globally important landscape in Eastern Thailand...

8th October 2020

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ZSL Nepal interim report 2020

https://conservewildcats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/09/ZSL-Nepal-Interim-Report_Feb-July-2020.pdf

8th September 2020

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Reporting from Lazovsky Zapovednik

By estherconwayNews

There is plenty of fascinating insight into the lives of Amur tigers in the recent report from the Ano Amur and ZSL Russia partnership project. Based in Lazovsky Zapovednik (LZ),...

2nd September 2020

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Tiger encounter – part 2

By estherconwayBlog, FFI

In part 1 of this tiger encounter story the FFI monitoring team, who work closely with the Kerinci Seblat TPCUs to collect data about tiger and prey population dynamics came...

27th August 2020

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