Small Wild Cat Conservation

There are 37 species of wild cat in the world today. Most people are aware of the big five  - tiger, lion, leopard, jaguar and cheetah. Many are familiar with the medium felines - snow leopard and cougar, or mountain lion. This website is about the remaining 30 small wild cat species from the clouded leopard to the black footed cat, the world's smallest wild cat.

Purrr-uze our website,  learn more about the small wild cats, and join the fight to save these beautiful little cats. Become a member, adopt a cat in a captive breeding centre, or sponsor conservation research on the small wild cats.

NEW Photo Gallery page featuring black-footed cat photos from the researchers

NEW Photo Gallery page featuring small wild cats of Brazil from the researchers

NEW Wild Cats and Climate Change article

NEW You can help Black-footed cats by contributing to conservation research

NEW Snow Leopard Fact Sheet now available in Russian 

Photo Showcase

The joys of field research never end. In search of a tiny black footed cat, the researchers often have to dig them out of aardvark burrows. Photo from Dr. Alex Sliwa (the body on the ground)! More photos here.

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