African Cats in the News – Oct to Dec 2024
African cats are regularly in the news as the big cats of Africa are well known iconic animals. Besides the three big cats - the African Lion, African Leopard and African Cheetah, there are also seven smaller wild cats which are not often in the news as they are rarely seen or studied. These are the African Caracal, African Serval, African Golden Cat, African Wildcat, Jungle Cat, Black-footed Cat and African Sand Cat.
Here are some interesting news and research items on these ten wild cats of Africa from October to December 2024.
We will update this post regularly until the end of December so be sure to favourite this page or follow our website to check for updates.
Updated: 11 Dec, 27 Nov, 13 Nov, 30 Oct 2024
For news on Lions and Leopards in their Asian range see Panthera Big Cats in the News ~ Oct to Dec 2024.
African Lions in the News
... has been involved in a thorough audit of large carnivores in Uganda – and while the result isn’t uniformly bad, he says there is a lot that’s troubling ...
They’ve also developed an artificial intelligence model that can identify 17 species, including rhinos, lions (Panthera leo) and leopards (Panthera pardus) ...
On Mongabay
... follow a group of African big cats in Botswana’s awe-inspiring Okavango Delta, day and night for six months, revealing their lives like never before in this six-part series ...
SACT need your support to get 10,000 of these comics into South African schools – both bordering the Kruger National Park, and around other provincial and national reserves ...
... conducted experiments in Kruger National Park, playing recordings of various sounds at waterholes ...Greater Kruger National Park is home to the world's largest remaining lion population ...
The lion (Panthera leo) was extirpated from the Cape region of South Africa during the mid-nineteenth century. Whilst historically classified as a ...
By Nature
West Africa's forgotten felines endangered by conflict and research gaps
Mongabay
... last refuge for many of the region’s most iconic species, including West African lions (Panthera leo leo), savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) and cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)...
Famed lions' full diet revealed by DNA — and humans were among their prey
Nature
Few wild lions (Panthera leo) are as well-known as the 'Man-eaters of Tsavo', two large maneless males that terrorized workers constructing the ...
Droughts reshape apex predator space use and intraguild overlap
Journal of Animal Ecology (Research article)
Using 11 years of GPS data from four sympatric large carnivore species in southern Africa—lions (Panthera leo), leopards (Panthera pardus), African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) ...
Plos One (Research article)
... we explored African lion (Panthera leo) habitat selection and movement patterns to better understand lions’ behavioral adjustments in a landscape shared with pastoralists. We conducted our study in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Tanzania ...
In Chad’s Zakouma National Park, improved conservation efforts have transformed the lions’ menu from small antelope to towering giraffes and hefty buffalo ...
African Leopards in the News
Leopards (Panthera pardus) are holding on across the country, and hyenas are faring well. In a collaboration involving more than 100 conservation stakeholders ...
It gives us great pleasure to present our 2024 Impact Report which showcases the incredible work and achievements of our team over the last 12 months ...
2024 WINNER | WILDLIFE | African Leopard Fight, Mashatu Game Reserve,Botswana. “The amount of time invested in getting this image and the ...
... leopards (Panthera pardus) and African golden cats (Caracal aurata), a small forest cat found only in Central and West Africa ...
On Mongabay
... our camera traps have been very active, snapping images of leopards and other creatures in the greater Piketberg region ...
Droughts reshape apex predator space use and intraguild overlap
Journal of Animal Ecology (Research article)
Using 11 years of GPS data from four sympatric large carnivore species in southern Africa—lions (Panthera leo), leopards (Panthera pardus), African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) ...
African Cheetahs in the News
This year, the occasion coincided with the premiere of “Return of the Cheetah,” a new documentary on the Discovery Channel, which highlights critical ...
With fewer than 7000 remaining, cheetahs now occupy less than 10% of their historic global range ... launched a public awareness campaign addressing the large-scale smuggling of cheetahs from Somaliland to the Middle East ...
We received a call from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) that a farmer had caught a cheetah in a trap and she had three, very small cubs with her ...
The Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) needs your help as you celebrate International Cheetah Day ...
The documentary, jointly produced by JETOUR, the Discovery Channel and the Cheetah Conservation Fund, uses the Namibian grasslands in Africa as a ...
On ZAWYA
... a rare spotless cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) sighting shocked the wildlife world as seen for the first time in April 2024 in nearly a century at Athi Kapiti Conservancy in Kenya ...
The illicit trafficking of cheetah cubs between East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula poses a threat to the species' survival ...
On Mwakilishi
Link to the research article
I am both a volunteer and donor with CCF. I wanted to learn all I could about CCF, how the Research and Education Centre in Namibia is saving the cheetah ...
One of the greatest challenges to the cheetah’s survival in the wild is the loss of its natural habitat. I work directly in Namibia to study the ecology of the arid landscape ...
Release of Cheetahs to Kuno National Park
Ground Report
India plans phased release of African cheetahs in Kuno National Park starting late October ...
West Africa's forgotten felines endangered by conflict and research gaps
Mongabay
... last refuge for many of the region’s most iconic species, including West African lions (Panthera leo leo), savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) and cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)...
Droughts reshape apex predator space use and intraguild overlap
Journal of Animal Ecology (Research article)
... lions (Panthera leo), leopards (Panthera pardus), African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) and cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) - spanning 4 severe drought events ...
There is also a small population of Cheetahs in Iran, Asia and there are attempts to reintroduce Cheetahs to India. Read news about Asiatic Cheetahs at Cheetahs and Pumas in the News ~ Jul to Dec 2024 - Wild Cat Family.
Caracals, Servals and Golden Cats in the News
Caracals, Servals and African Golden Cats are the three medium sized African cats and all three are closely related in the Caracal lineage.
Only the Caracal ranges further into Middle East and Asia - read news about the Asian Caracal at Small Wild Cats of Eurasia in the News ~ Jul to Dec 2024.
In this study, we investigated the diet of a specialist carnivore, the serval (Leptailurus serval), inhabiting artificial and natural landscapes surrounding a petrochemical plant in South Africa ...
Research article in Mammalia
The Urban Caracal Project, established in 2014, uses social media to educate about the caracal (Caracal caracal), a wild cat native to Africa ...
... leopards (Panthera pardus) and African golden cats (Caracal aurata), a small forest cat found only in Central and West Africa. The golden cat is so elusive ..
On Mongabay
West Africa's forgotten felines endangered by conflict and research gaps
Mongabay
There are three species of small cats - servals (Leptailurus serval), caracals (Caracal caracal) and African wildcats (Felis lybica) — in the WAP ...
A new study finds that servals have surprisingly high densities in the Sasol Secunda petrochemical industrial complex in Mpumalanga, South Africa ...
On Mongabay
Small African Cats in the News
The four smallest African cats are the African Wildcat (or Afro-Asiatic Wildcat), Jungle Cat, the endemic Black-footed Cat and the African Sand Cat, all closely related in the Felis lineage.
Except for the endemic Black-footed Cat there are also populations of the other three species in the Middle East and into Asia. Read news about these cats in their Eurasian range at Small Wild Cats of Eurasia in the News ~ Jul to Dec 2024.
The tiny black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) is one of Africa's rarest cats, only found in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, with a total ...
On Mongabay
Geographical Variation in the Sand Cat (Felis margarita)
MDPI (Research article)
Sand cats, Felis margarita, range from northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to Central Asia. Their apparently discontinuous distribution is recognized as comprising four subspecies ...
West Africa's forgotten felines endangered by conflict and research gaps
Mongabay
There are three species of small cats - servals (Leptailurus serval), caracals (Caracal caracal) and African wildcats (Felis lybica) — in the WAP ...
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