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.
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
- Friday, 1st May 1998
Scent marking by free-ranging black footed cat female
The role of scent marking in a free-ranging, female black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) - Wednesday, 20th December 2017
Dietary niche relationships among predators on farmland and a protected area
Research of the diets of caracal, jackal and leopard on a protected area and on farmlands in the western karoo Tuesday, 1st December 2015
- Sunday, 16th April 2017
We investigated the ecology of cape foxes (Vulpes chama) and bat-eared foxes (Otocyon megalotis) in the absence of black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas)
Lethal and sublethal effects of black-backed jackals on cape foxes and bat-eared foxes