CAT CONSERVATION TRUST & KAROO PREDATOURS
HELP THESE SPECIES - FUNDING NEEDED !!
DONORS WELCOME or COME and Visit us and Enjoy our activities - accommodation ( self or fully catered ), wild cats, game veiwing, photo safari and more. Your funds spent whilst visiting us goes towards supporting our project !
DONORS - for more info click here
We have set up a funding drive to cover the loss of cat food and income for labour due to the worldwide lockdown. Please help if you can.
https://gogetfunding.com/karoo-cats-cat-conservation-trust/
IMPORTANT regarding electronic maps: Please note that there are several apps which DO NOT HAVE OUR CORRECT DIRECTIONS.
Please ONLY USE Google maps (do NOT use the Bloukrans road) or contact us for detailed directions.
DATES TO DIARISE
Karoo Food Festival in Cradock - 27 to 30 April 2023
Fish River Canoe Marathon - 6 and 7 October 2023
RELAX ON OUR TRANQUIL AND REMOTE PROPERTY !
South Africa enjoys seven species of indigenous wild cats. The big cats of Africa, like lions and cheetah, receive much focus and attention through tourism and the fact that they are more easily sighted than their smaller cousins. The small cats form an essential link in our ecosystem, but desperately require the same status as the larger cats.
The Cat Conservation Trust is a non-profit trust that aims to create public awareness of the plight of the small cats through research and education.
We get very little funding - In addition to some funds from the National Lotteries Commission, our public awareness campaign is rarely sponsored and only in small amounts by the Feline Conservation Federation, Rare Species Fund, Honda, Karoo Taxidermy and Taxidermy Africa.
Cat Conservation Trust - Interesting Facts
- Thursday, 31st January 2019
Survey on Black footed cats in Nambia by the Black Footed Cat Working Group (BFCWG)
Black-footed Cat (Felis nigripes) Survey Namibia- Report on surveying for Black-footed cats in southern Namibia, January 2019. - Monday, 1st July 2019
Survey of farmers regarding predation on livestock farms
A survey of farmers’ experience using guard animals to control the impact of predators on farm livestock - Friday, 30th November 2018
In book: Livestock Predation and its Management in South Africa
The socio-economic impacts of livestock predation and its prevention in South Africa. - Thursday, 31st January 2013
The Effect of Predator Culling on Livestock Losses: Ceres, South Africa, 1979 – 1987
Conradie B., Piesse J.