General

Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti) must be one of the most poorly known cats in the world.  With a very small known range on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (Qinghai and northwest Sichuan), it is the only cat endemic to China and it was as recently as 2007 that it was first photographed in the wild (via a camera trap).

Chinese Mountain Cat is so poorly known that a young Chinese scientist who wanted to study it for his PhD was told by his supervisor that there simply wasn’t enough information to warrant a PhD and to focus on another mammal.  In recent years there have been sporadic sightings in Rouergai (Sichuan Province) and near Yushu (Qinghai Province) but it remains one of the most mysterious felids on the planet.

https://birdingbeijing.com/2018/10/12/chinese-mountain-cat/

Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti)

No wonder the numbers are declining rapidly. Panthera claims to be the world’s premier cat conservation agency, but they promote leopard and lion hunting. They are hunting themselves (lions, leopards, game) in South Africa in their “spare time”. This is a Disgrace!

Read the full report in the Daily Mail.

A lioness at the Uketula Private Game Reserve/South Africa has given birth to two cubs conceived via non-surgical artificial insemination. This is the first (successfull) attempt. It doesn’t seem really necessary with lions, who are breeding well in captivity, and in fact one shouldn’t be breeding with the lion in captivity anymore. But it might be of great interest as a last resort to have a captive lioness injected with blood from the last wild lion, to return fresh blood to the wild. As the lionpopulation is decreasing rapidly, as well as the numbers of other species, it could be valuable, so a good thing that research has been done now. Luckily the cubs could stay with the mother, which is a rare even in South Africa as we all know.
For now, an interesting press release to read.

Yes these pictures (just a few of too many) are shocking and disgusting, but we need to shown this to raise awareness: this is how our fellow “humans” treat animals, like on these pictures the Asian Leopard Cat.
Jane Baker is the Jane Goodall for the Leopard Cat, giving her all – fighting for this species, and we thank her for her great work and dedication to this wonderful species that doesn’t deserve the ugly human treatment.

Fur is from beautiful animals used and abused by ugly people, often skinned alive. Not just for fur, but also to end up being eaten.

500,000 Leopard Cats are slaughtered a year for the illegal fur trade.One furrier in China has stock piled over a million Leopard Cat skins,Japan buys 65 per cent of these furs and makes coats,and blankets from their fur.

Time to raise awareness and put a stop to this cruel and unnecessary business. Save the Leopard Cat!