Save Pampas Cats
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Big Cat Rescue is saving pampas cats. We post the latest in pampas cat news here and in our newsletter The Big Cat Times . 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 pampas cats 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 pampas cats 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 Leopard Cats in the wild, that
is exactly what will happen.
Dr. Jim Sanderson has been responsible for igniting a passion in local peoples for the Leopard Cats. 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
Cats in the wild need your help!
There are only 15 Pampas Cats in
Brazilian Zoos and only 3 in the U.S. according to ISIS. 
There are seven more species of exotic cats native to this region that will also benefit from this project. There has never been a field study done on the Pampas Cat. Just $3,000.00 can fund the first ever scientific study of this rare cat in the wild. Join us and make history.
In just the past few weeks there has been exciting news about the progress of this study. Dr. Jim Sanderson met Leandro Silveira who is working in Emas N.P. in the cerrado of Brazil. Dr. Sanderson sent one antenna, one receiver, and 10 radio collars to Emas and Leandro happened to receive them. Leandro has personally observed Pampas cats in Emas N.P. crossing the road. He says they are not common but they exist in the park. Moreover, Emas is where Conservation International is working. Therefore, this is where we will study Pampas cats.
Cristina Adania, the Director of the Brazilian Center for Neotropical Felids has located 15 Pampas Cats in their country's zoos, when just days ago that number was only known to be 7. She is organizing a cooperative effort to pair these cats up for a successful captive breeding program. Things are moving fast, and they have to, if this cat is to be brought back from the dark edge of extinction.
Your donation will be used to:
1. Purchase the camera traps, telemetry collars, microchips and other equipment necessary to study the Pampas Cat in the wild.
2. To pay the local people that will be trained to monitor the equipment.
3. Processing of samples and development of film.
4. Building of suitable breeding cages for the non releasable Pampas Cats in zoos.
5. Supplement the diets and medical needs of the Pampas Cats in the program who are producing viable offspring.
Our goals are to:
1. Make people aware of the beautiful Pampas Cat and cause them to care about its survival.
2. Learn about the needs of the Pampas Cat for survival in the wild so that the people of Brazil can incorporate those needs into their reforestation plans.
3. 
Establish captive breeding programs
for the non releasable cats in situ and ex situ so that we can
learn more about these cats from close contact and so that they will be
exhibited more widely around the world, thus bringing more attention to their
preservation in the wild.
4. Convince AZA and the Felid TAG that these cats are important and that we must act now to ensure their survival and that of their eco system. At this time both groups have decided to let the Pampas Cat die out. Other Brazilian cats that we would like to encourage them to assist are the Margay, Tigrina, Jaguarundi, and Geoffroy Cat. At this time all of them have been selected by AZA and the Felid TAG to abandon. The zoos have been advised to let these small cats die out so that they can concentrate their efforts on the larger species.
5. Ultimately to see the Pampas Cat, and all of his wild cat cousins, living “Safe In the Wild.”
If you think this project is of no concern to you, then reconsider. Man is accelerating the extinction process 100 to 1000 times the natural rate by plundering the planet’s natural resources. The same habitats these cats need to survive are the ones that provide the air we breathe. We all have to work together and the time is now.
If you want to help be sure to signify in the notes that you want your donation to go to the Pampas Cat Project.
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?”Thank you from Big Cat Rescue.
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