Big cats (and other wild cats) generally
[rev 20090117]
Male ocelot [wood-engraving by
Thomas Bewick]
These are links to pages about big cats (and other wild
cats) generally: lions, tigers, panthers, jaguars, cheetahs,
bobcats... Information about the many species, their life and
their conservation in the wild and in captivity, and lots of big
cat pictures.
big cats (and other wild cats) generally:
information on species etc
spotted in the UK (and elsewhere)...
conservation and sanctuaries
- Cat
House (EFBC/FCC) Home Page – Feline
Conservation Center (USA)
- Born
Free Foundation – a "dynamic
animal welfare and conservation charity based in the United Kingdom"
[970612 rev 20070324]
- Carnivore
preservation trust – healthy populations
of endangered animals (Pittsburgh, NC) [970612 rev 20070324]
- Cat Survival Trust
– charitable organisation in south-east England cares for several of the
smaller endangered wild cats (up to snow leopard) and concentrates
on conservation of their original natural habitat [970117]
- The Roar Foundation: Shambala Preserve – actress Tipi Hedren's sanctuary with big cats (remember the film Roar!) [970111 rev 20070324]
- Rocky Mountain Wildlife Conservation Center – (at Keenesburg,
Colorado) rehabilitates
various big cats back to health and happiness [rev 20070324]
- Southern
Florida Wildlife Rehab Center –
dedicated to the care of abused and injured animals, specialising
in large cats (Homestead, Florida) [20000517]
- Turpentine
Creek Exotic Wildlife Refuge – a licensed shelter for
neglected and unwanted large carnivores, with many big cats,
7 miles south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas [970614 rev 20070324]
- Wild
About Cats – US state/federal-licensed
big cat rescue centre
(even has general info about responsible ownership of big cats!)
[rev 20070324]
- Big Cat Rescue – Tampa, Florida; has extensive details from a large and well set-up but distinctly unsentimental organisation: has much inveighing against the abuse and subesquent abandonment of large carnivores – web pages really quite slow to download (problems notably for Macs and Firefox apparently :) but they are 'working on it' [20031106]
- JES Exotics Sanctuary
– home to over 50 large cats etc rescued
from being abused, starved... (Sharon, Wisconsin) [20000424]
- SHEA
Park, Exotic Animal Sanctuary – Safe Haven for Endangered Animals (Casar, NC) [in 2007 being relocated] [970612 rev 20070324]
- Big Cat Telegraph – blog with conservation news [20070325]
photograph sources
- The Lion Lady – photos of African wildlife (for sale) [20070324]
- Foto Search – searchable stock photographs for sale (royalty-free) [20070325]
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