Project of the Month - Archive
Here you can find all Cat Projects of the Month from the last years back to 2005.
The IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group's website regularly presents a different cat conservation project.
Members of the Cat Specialist Group are encouraged to submit a short description of interesting projects.
For application use this standardised form (an editable word document) and send it to ch.breitenmoser(at)kora.ch.
- Puma (Puma concolor) © A. Sliwa
Status of Asiatic cheetah in Iran: A country-scale assessment
A country-scale demographic assessment was established to understand population size and composition of the Asiatic cheetahs within the animal’s main nucleus across the species single stronghold outside Africa. The present report presents results of that intensive effort in order to provide a more realistic and comprehensive baseline for the state of the Asiatic cheetahs in Iran. The goal of this work was to provide a baseline for monitoring the status of the species in the country. Finally, we propose implicationfor the conservation of the country population.
Navid Gholikhani holds a bachelor of environmental sciences and works in the Cheetah Monitoring Project in Iran since 2011.
November 2014
With a focus on the Sunda clouded leopard, we are asking key questions about felid density and abundance in this under-studied habitat, investigating the threats to felids and mitigating these through work with local communities.
Susan is a wildlife conservationist who has been working in Indonesia since 2002. With a focus on the largest carnivore on the island of Borneo, this project is the first long-term study of clouded leopards in a peat-swamp forest.