Endangered
Snow Leopards Get a Helping Hand from an Unlikely Place
Care2.com
(blog)
Panthera's mission since 2006 has been to save the world's 37
big cat species and their ecosystems. Of all the big cats, the
most imperiled are lions, tigers, jaguars and snow leopards. To pull these
species back from the brink of extinction, Panthera ...
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EDITOR'S NOTE: I am not quite sure what they mean. There are only 7 species in the Pantherinae, and whereas there are 41 species of cat in total, this includes the domestic cat, and the Iromote cat, both of whose specific status is a little dodgy. I am not sure where the figure 37 comes from. I counted 38 subspecies of pantherines alone. There are at least six subspecies of cheetah. JD
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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