Saving big cats means saving our planet – and saving ourselves. The world’s last wild places are vanishing at an alarming rate. As wide-ranging predators, big cats play a crucial role in keeping ecosystems in balance. Saving them protects huge tracts of land and every species living in that landscape. Producing stories, photographs and films about big cats has impact: Our work has helped create national parks, inform the public, influence lawmakers and stop wildlife trafficking.
Big cats are among the world’s most charismatic animals, species that have existed for about 2 million years – and now all wild cats, big and small, are under serious threat
Across the globe, big cat habitat is disappearing as forests are razed, humans encroach, and climate change radically alters the environment. Wild cats, as apex predators, play an integral role in ecosystems that have evolved in synchrony for millions of years. Protecting these cats and their habitat maintains that equilibrium, saving countless species by saving just one.
There is still enough habitat to support healthy wild cat populations. Protecting cats will save entire ecosystems, benefitting both wildlife and people.
The cats themselves are at the core of why we work with these incredible animals. Their personalities, physical prowess, and curiosity are just some of the countless variable characteristics that make each species unique and worth protecting.
The catsMany of the environments inhabited by big cats face ongoing threats of deforestation, climate change, and pollution. As keystone species within many of these ecosystems, finding solutions to protect big cats has wide-ranging impacts. To save many, save just one.
what we doFor millennia, wild cats shared the land with humans who both feared and revered them and learned to co-exist. As we continue to convert land within big cat territory, it is important to share success stories, reporting on strategies that allow people to live with wildlife. From human-cat conflict to robust ecotourism industries, the relationship between big cats and people plays an important role in the lives of cats and their surrounding human communities.
Our StoryCome with us on the journey to share the stories of the world’s most magnificent cats.
Join UsThrough our work, we strive to capture the power, beauty, intelligence and unique behaviors of the species we work with. In telling their stories, we bring international attention to the plight of wildlife and highlight ways to protect them. ultimately, help protect our wild subjects.
Your support will help us bring the most vital issues facing big cats into the spotlight. Together we can make wild cat voices heard.
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