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WELCOME

Connecting conservationists globally, to escalate science and action for small cats

Welcome

Felid Landscapes: Shaping conservation policies for (almost invisible) small cats

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Promoting Human-Fishing Cat Coexistence in the Lower Ganges Floodplains of Bangladesh

Small Cats, Big Differences in Habitat Selection and Road Sensitivity Across Brazilian Felids

The Urban Caracal Project: Insights from a Decade of Research 

Genomic diversity and its relevance for the conservation of felids

Trafficking in silence: The overlooked illegal trade of small felids in Colombia

Rock and Pampa – Uruguay Small Wild Cat Program: Advancing Small Wild Cat Conservation in the South American Pampa through Integrated Science and Community Action

New insights and achievements in the conservation of the vulnerable population of guiña (Leopardus guigna) in Argentina

Using expert knowledge to identify status, threats, research needs, and conservation actions for the Pallas’s cat

Mitigating Human-Small Wild Cat Conflict from the Cloud forest of Northwestern Ecuador: Early Results of the Community Pilot Project Felinos de Monte.

The native and the invader: shared use of space and temporal segregation of clouded tiger-cats (Leopardus pardinoides) and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) in an isolated protected area of the Central Andes of Colombia.

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How do we escalate global awareness to help small cat conservation?

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Long-term strategic planning for the conservation of small cats

Mapping an elusive species: Landscape ecology’s role in defining black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) distribution in southern Africa

PICA (Pallas’s cat International Conservation Alliance) – support project for Pallas’s cat conservation globally and a gateway to protecting other small felids

Between wildlands and backyards: spatiotemporal dynamics between Geoffroy’s cat and domestic cats in fragmented landscapes

Anthropogenic and environmental correlates of spatial patterns of co-occurrence of small felids in a montane landscape

Distribution and habitat use patterns of the endangered Central American clouded oncilla (Leopardus pardinoides oncilla) in Costa Rica.

Caracal (Caracal caracal) habitat preferences and interspecific interaction in Ruaha-Rungwa ecosystem Tanzania

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Are protected areas safeguarding the Flat-headed cat and other Bornean Felids? National-scale analysis from Brunei Darussalam.

Small Cats, Big Risk: Online Trade and Emerging Threats to Lesser-Known Felids

An under explored threat of trade and cultural use to Servals (Leptailurus serval) and the potential role of demand reduction initiatives in small cat conservation.

Restoring Canada Lynx to the Kettle Mountain Range; A Transboundary Population Augmentation.

From archaeological evidence to social readiness: an integrated One Conservation framework for small wild cat reintroduction on Santa Catarina Island, Brazil

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Assessing anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in the endangered European wildcat (Felis silvestris) and sympatric wildcat-domestic cat hybrids in Scotland

The underground cat: burrow use by female black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) in Namibia

Preliminary insights into the movement, road ecology, and monitoring design for the Central American oncilla

How should we engage governments to improve policies and actions that help small cats?

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Wildcats at the Edge: Conserving threatened felids in human dominated landscapes in Sumatra

Toxic towns: Drivers of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in an urban edge carnivore

Interspecific avoidance and fine-scale segregation in Neotropical small wild cat assemblages

New Records of the Flat-headed Cat Distribution across Patchy Habitats in an Unprotected Bornean Corridor Area

Disease and intraguild killing as mortality factors in black-footed cats across managed and unmanaged landscapes

The ‘Tiger’ Myth and the Mob: A Content Analysis of Fear-Driven Persecution of the Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) in Bangladesh

Projecting the future of the marbled cat in a changing landscape

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Movement ecology reveals the drivers of successful Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) reintroductions

Small felids Beyond Protected Area: Insights from the community forest of Seinthuk, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Where Protection Maters Most: Rethinking Protected Area Design for Small Cats in Borneo

Small Cat Report – IUCN Red List Assessment chances and challenges for small cat species

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Conserving the Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita), the most threatened felid in the Americas

Transforming fishing cat and fish-farmers conflict into conservation

A Tale of Two Cats: Temperature Driven Density Gradients of Canada Lynx and Bobcats Reveal Contrasting Responses to Climate Change at a Range Margin

Conservation Actions for the Clouded Tiger-Cat (Leopardus pardinoides) in a biodiversity hotspot, in the Eastern Colombian Andes

What do funders look for?

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Integrating conservation-action and conservation-science for small cats’ protection: the Tiger Cats Conservation Initiative model

Status and Conservation of Small Wild Cats in the Cold Winter Deserts of Turkmenistan

Known western range of Asiatic golden cat extended to Jajarkot, Nepal

Protected areas, forest structure and rainfall seasonality shape the continental distribution of the African golden cat

Ecological Baselines and Conservation Priorities for Trinidad’s Isolated Ocelot Population

Zenith placement of camera traps to identify small wild cats: an empirical study with the Güiña (Leopardus guigna)

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From Scent to Sequence: Harnessing Canine-Assisted Genetic Sampling to Bridge Knowledge Gaps in Black-Footed Cats (Felis nigripes)

Wild cats of the Pampa Project: From Conflict to Coexistence

Through the lynx’s lens: Genetic insights from the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Jura and Northern Alps of France.

Whiskerbook: AI and Collaborative Data Management for Small Wild Cat Mark-Recapture 

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Small cats in the 21st century: a review of the first quarter of a century in wild small felid research.

Servals on the Roof of Africa: Naturalistic observations of a high-altitude population

Use of dynamic N-occupancy models to track population trends of nontarget or unmarked species.

From Detections to Density: Rethinking how we measure small cat recovery

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