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
- Monday, 11th March 2019
Study of wildlife on extensive small livestock farms in the Karoo
Wildlife winners and losers of extensive small-livestock farming: a case study in the South African KarooDrouilly, M. O’Riain, J. - Monday, 18th April 2022
Territorial male black-backed jackal on small stock farm
Ranging behaviour of a territorial male Black-Backed Jackal in a small stock farming area in the Southern Free State - Friday, 19th March 2021
Farmers views on the appreciation of black backed jackal and caracal
Beauty or beast? Farmers’ dualistic views and the influence of aesthetic appreciation on tolerance towards black-backed jackal and caracal. - Friday, 30th June 2006
Prey composition of the black-footed cat
Seasonal and sex-specific prey composition of black-footed cats Felis nigripes