Photo Gallery

Here at ISEC Canada, we are privileged to receive some spectacular wild cat photos from researchers in the cats' native countries. On the following pages you can see the extremely rare South American Andean cat, the tiny African black-footed cat, the small wild cat species in Brazil or the wild felines of the Argentine Espinal.

Please note all photos on this and other Photo Gallery pages are copywrited to the researchers, and are not to be used for commerical purposes. If you wish to obtain permission to use these photos, email our office at isec@wildcatconservation.org  and we will direct you to the proper authority.

We thought we would also share some of our favorite photos on this page, just to let you know how hard wild cat conservationists work!

Camera traps are an increasingly popular method of finding out which animals are inhabiting an area. However, when one of the species inhabiting your study area is the size of an elephant, you need to be pretty creative. Researcher Lon Grassman created this elephant-proof camera trap cover to keep the big animals from picking up the camera.

Malaysia

Argentinian biologist Mauro Lucherini takes to the trees during their Geoffroy's cat field study. It seems the cats often use the trees as a handy litter box, and in order to obtain scat samples, a certain amount of flexibility is required on behalf of the researcher.

Argentina

Studying the smallest wild cat in the world can be a real challenge - especially when these tiny felines have retreated into an underground burrow. Here the top half of Alex Sliwa is trying to retrieve a small black-footed cat, while the bottom half is firmly held above ground by a colleague.

South Africa