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Florida law requires that all charities soliciting donations disclose their registration number and the percentage of your donation that goes to the cause and the amount that goes to the solicitor. Our registration number is CH-11409 and non-program expenses are funded from tour income, so 100% of your donations go directly to save the cats. We are a 501 c 3 charity as determined by the IRS Federal ID#59-3330495. Our 990s are available online at GuideStar.org with a complete breakdown of how your donations are spent.
 
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Saving the Margay in the Wild

 

Big Cat Rescue is saving the margay. We post the latest in margay news here and in our newsletter Cat Tales. We gather news from around the world DAILY and forward it to The Association of Sanctuaries and the Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition, of which we are a part, who are actively involved in saving the margay and all exotic animals. See what you can do to help save these exotic cats in captivity and in the wild. Great Cats and Lesser Cats are in peril around the world and need people like you, who care about margay and other exotic cats to help save them from the brink of extinction. Big Cat Rescue is working to make it illegal to sell exotic cats as pets and is diligently striving to improve conditions for big cats in zoos and circuses.

 

Dr. Jim Sanderson is someone who shares our belief that the money should go to the animals and not be wasted on salaries and benefits for those who are doing the fundraising.  If you contact him and say you want 100% of your donation to go to the Margay in the wild, that is exactly what will happen. 

 

Dr. Jim Sanderson has been responsible for igniting a passion in local peoples for the Margay.  He works with teams of local scientist to camera trap and gather information on these rare wild cats all around the world.  He goes a step further and gets the people in the area to take pride in their natural resources so that they will help to protect these small cats that are on the brink of extinction. 

 

Dr. Sanderson is working to establish six high priority long-term research sites in Bolivia, Borneo, Cambodia, Chile, China, and India. He also supports the efforts of alliance colleagues in Argentina, Brazil, India, Sarawak, Suriname, and Vietnam. Sustained camera photo-trapping efforts will enable him to monitor the populations of small cats and to detect changes in their population trends. Dr. Sanderson's resourceful methods - carrying out arduous research with very limited resources - are the hallmark of a true entrepreneurial scientist.

 

To read more about this conservation effort go to: http://www.wildnet.org/smallcat.htm

 

To make a donation to help save snow leopards in the wild go to www.WildNet.org 

 

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