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 Writers Festival, Cradock - 15 to 18 June 2023
Karoo Winter Wool Festival, Middelburg - 22 to 25 June 2023
Fish River Canoe Marathon, Cradock - 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
Sunday, 1st March 2015Ecological relationships of black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) and sympatric canids in South Africa
Kamlera J. F., Stenkewitza U., Sliwa A, Wilson B., Lamberski N., Herrick J.R., Macdonald D.W.
Tuesday, 1st December 2009Black footed cat conservation and infectious diseases of sympatric carnivores
Conservation of black-footed cats (Felis nigripes) and prevalence of infectious diseases in sympatric carnivores in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
Friday, 31st December 2021Black backed jackal diet through scat analysis
Black-backed jackal diet in the Maria Moroka Nature Reserve,Free State Province: Implications for managing depredationon small stock farms- Wednesday, 24th May 2023
HOOF ACTION
Hooves of ungulates ( wild antelope ) break up the top soil when they walk around, which opens up the soil for seeds lying ontop and for rain or dew water to penetrate the soil, and then the seeds can germinate. This is a very important part of...
