Big Cat Rescue is saving Ocelots in the wild
When you support Big Cat Rescue you are not only helping to care for the ocelots who have made their home here, but you are also helping to protect them in their natural habitats. Read Big Cat Rescue's Daily Updates on Wildcats in the Wild at Field Projects
One way that you can help is through our S.A.F.E. In The Wild campaign.
Another way that Big Cat Rescue is getting involved is our application to join the Ocelot Species Survival Plan or SSP. In May we applied to join this AZA sanctioned group as non member participants. The Ocelot SSP makes the continued survival of the ocelot in the wild and in captivity it's priority. To this end, the Brazilian Ocelot Consortium is in the contract stages and if properly implemented would be the model by which all in situ and ex situ projects will be carried out.
The Brazilians understand that American zoos need
known origin Ocelots in order to enrich their genetic banks. A technical
cooperation was agreed upon which would benefit a number of American
participants and help the Brazilians with their in situ projects. The
agreement proposed is to send 10 pairs of Ocelots to the U.S. over the next 5
years. Large institutions will donate $9000.00 over 5 years and small
institutions will donate $5000.00 over 5 years. This money will be applied
to 6 programs that the Brazilians have already developed: 1. Studbook
publication 2. Reforestation program 3. Education program 4.
Training of Brazilian Zoo staff 5. Maintenance of a biological resource and
6. Captive propagation of the Brazilian Ocelots. If
approved for participation in the Ocelot Species Survival Plan, Big Cat Rescue will also join the Brazilian Ocelot Consortium.
If you would like to donate direct to this project on line, go to https://secure.shopacity.com/wildlifeeasyst/shop.asp Under SAFE In The Wild choose the cat or region that you want to protect and then choose any increment of $10.00. You can be assured that your donations are being spent on the projects you select as we provide an accounting of all of our income and expenses on line on the page called Finances. If your other charities don’t make this information readily available you have to ask, “Why?”
Big Cat Rescue is also involved in Ocelot research and has assisted graduate students who are studying the predator, prey relationships by supplying Ocelot urine for various projects. Matt and Jen are always trying to come up with a new way to get an Ocelot to pee in a cup. None of our cats are ever caged or forced to participate. Fortunately, Ocelots just live to spray and collecting the urine is only unpleasant for the humans involved.
Big Cat Rescue is saving ocelots. We post the latest in ocelot 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 ocelots 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 ocelots 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.
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