Tag archives for Big Cats Initiative
Posted by If cats really do have nine lives, the big wild cats of Africa are probably down to their last one or two. But help may be on the way, in the form of an ambitious new program to explore, test, and develop successful strategies to restore and safeguard the continent’s lions, cheetahs, and leopards. The…
With a hundred bomas, the traditional livestock enclosures of East Africa, now fenced against predators, it’s time to set the baseline of data to be collected to monitor the success of a National Geographic Big Cats Initiative project to reduce the conflict between wild lions and herders in Kenya’s Maasai Mara region. Big Cats Initiative grantee Anne…
In this second post from the field, National Geographic Big Cats Initiative grantee Anne Kent Taylor reports on how her work to provide chainlink fencing to livestock farmers in rural Kenya is successfully keeping lions and other large predators at bay. Taylor is using her Big Cats Initiative grant to mitigate the conflict between predators…
This is the first in a regular series of blog posts about what’s being done to help the world’s last big cats survive in the wild. It focuses on the work of National Geographic grantee Anne Kent Taylor, the construction of predator-proof livestock enclosures in prime big cat habitats in Kenya’s Maasai Mara region. But first…
The Serengeti road to disaster
Posted by Stuart Pimm on June 18, 2010 By Stuart Pimm What comes to mind when you think of Africa? During the World Cup, perhaps thousands of vuvuzelas sounding like a swarm of very angry bees as fans cheer their team. But other than that? Surely huge herds of animals walking across vast, open plains. I arrived in South Africa, in 1996, to…
Year of the Tiger
Posted by Ford Cochran on February 17, 2010 February 14, 2010, marked not just Valentine’s Day, but also the beginning of the Lunar (technically, the “lunisolar”) or Chinese New Year—the astrological Year of the Tiger. The Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative is showing its love for these endangered felines with a new Year of the Tiger guide to all things striped and wonderful. The…
NatGeo Wins Environmental Legacy Award
Posted by Ford Cochran on October 27, 2009 National Geographic President and CEO John Fahey traveled to Hollywood this weekend to accept the Environmental Media Association‘s Legacy Award on behalf of the Society. Explorers-in-Residence Beverly and Dereck Joubert—whose years of filmmaking, photography, and conservation efforts on behalf of the world’s endangered felines inspired the new Big Cats Initiative—joined Fahey for the ceremony. Actor…
