Big cat extinction threats

[Tim May]

Posted today on the BBC News website; see link below:-

Lions face same extinct threats as Ice Age cats - study - BBC News

 

[Brian Day]

It is shocking to read about this. I wonder what conservation charities' policy is for boosting the "prey population" for these predators.

 

[vogelcommando]

Story about how Laos lost its tigers and Leopards..... :

How Laos lost its tigers

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Story about how Laos lost its tigers and Leopards..... :

How Laos lost its tigers

Interesting article , thanks for sharing it !

 

[vogelcommando]

Another article about the tigers extinction in Laos :

Tigers Extinct in Laos • The Revelator

 

[Dassie rat]

Lilian Gask's 'All about animals' (1925) stated "In Java and Sumatra there are so many tigers that some years ago Dutch merchants complained that they interfered with the delivery of coffee by lurking along their routes".

 

[vogelcommando]

Dramatic decline in Leopard-numbers in India :

Scientists find 75-90 % decline in Leopard population in India - Times of India