Save Big Cats
They Need Your Help to Stay in the Hunt
The big cats — lions, snow leopards, jaguars, and tigers — are some of nature’s fiercest predators. They roam the world’s most diverse and remote habitats, from the snow-capped Himalayas to the rainforests of the Amazon, and yet they cannot escape people, who threaten their very existence through poaching, habitat loss, and conflict over livestock. Their numbers have been devastated and they need your help.
Currently, more tigers live in captivity than in the wild, and Asiatic lions once found throughout Asia, and as far west as Greece, are now on the verge of extinction, with only 300 remaining in the wild. Snow leopards cling to remnant habitats in war-torn regions of Central Asia and jaguars are shot as they search for food in places where people have eaten all of their natural prey.
WCS believes that people can coexist with big cats. We are working around the globe to save these magnificent creatures and the landscapes they need to survive. With your support, WCS will help save big cats by combining sound science with effective local action to create conservation solutions. Our teams are dedicated to making real change on the ground.
Please donate today. Your gift will have an important impact — it is an investment in the future of some of the world’s most amazing animals.
Changing the Big Cat Landscape: How WCS Gets Results
WCS tiger conservation programs aim to increase key tiger populations by 50 percent over the next ten years at selected sites across the tiger’s range. From India to Siberia to Cambodia, WCS scientists are completing baseline surveys in critical tiger landscapes, organizing more effective anti-poaching activities and supporting new legislation and permanent patrols, and reducing human-tiger conflict to ensure the presence of tigers across these landscapes forever.
Cutting-Edge Science
WCS has developed new methods for studying big cats using genetic markers, satellite telemetry, and the latest techniques in Geographic Information Systems. We are also working with livestock owners to discover new ways to protect cattle and sheep in jaguar and lion country.
Conservation Solutions
Lions are now threatened across East Africa, but WCS is saving these lions with five different lion conservation initiatives spread across Kenya. In Central and South America, WCS is helping develop a jaguar corridor that will eventually connect populations of America’s largest cat from Mexico to Argentina. In Afghanistan WCS conservationists have engaged with the U.S. military to help curtail the illegal trophy trade that threatens snow leopards and other big cats.
Local Action
One of our most successful initiatives is a community conservation program that employs local Maasai warriors to carry out lion conservation work in Kenya. These Lion Guardians track lion movements in project areas, follow up on reports of lion-livestock conflicts, and advocate for lion conservation in local communities.
With your help, WCS will continue these and other projects to preserve the world’s big cats. Please donate now.
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