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It’s a fact that we can increase the wild population of certain endangered cat species in the wild.

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Photo: The Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur Tiger, is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small population in southwest Primorye province in the Russian Far East.

Photographer: Dagmar Göddemeier

Great Migration. Wildebeest in the dust!

Image and Text: Ingo Gerlach​ (Emotionale Momente - Bilder, die das Herz berühren. Von Ingo Gerlach.​)

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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like.
More than anything else,
IT IS ABOUT HOW WE TREAT OTHER PEOPLE.

Dennis Prager

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ECSST Amazing Animal Facts

LION FACTS

(1) Lions are the national animal of Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, England, Ethiopia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Singapore.
(2) In the wild, lions rest for around 20 hours a day.
(3) According to the WWF, lions can run up to 50 mph (80 kph) for short distances and leap as far as 36 feet (11 m).
(4) Though mountain lions (pumas/cougar) are in the same family (Felidae) as Asiatic and African lions, they are not considered lions.
(5) Male African lions that are trying to take over a pride will kill all of the cubs to avoid competition.
(6) Females are the main hunters of the pride. They form hunting parties to round up the fast animals found in their habitat.
(7) Lions communicate through a range of behaviors and their expressive movements are very highly developed. They will perform peaceful tactile actions such as licking each other and rubbing heads. Head rubbing, or nuzzling, is a common greeting behavior for lions. They also communicate through a variety of vocalizations including purrs, snarls, miaws and hissing. Their vocalizations also vary in intensity and pitch.
(8) Lionesses are caring mothers who will even take care of a neglected cub, allowing him/her to suckle and giving them a chance to survive. Two or more lionesses in a group tend to give birth around the same time, and the cubs are raised together. Cubs are extremely playful.
(9) Ancient Egyptians venerated lions as their war dieties due to their strength, power and fierceness. The famous sphinxes are just one of many mythical depictions of the lion in Egyptian culture.

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(in the process of updating with ample information regarding endangered cat species in the wild, photographers, concepts and our entire project) Kijk & Zie Fotografie

Photo: The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia (where an endangered remnant population resides in Gir Forest National Park in India) while other types of lions have disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times

Amur Tiger Arila

Image and Text: Cynthia ten Bras Wildlife Photography

The Paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis) is a brilliantly multicolored, medium-sized songbird whose length varies between 13.5 and 15 cm. It has a light green head, sky blue underparts and black upper body plumage. Depending on subspecies, the rump is yellow and red or all red. The beak is black and the legs are grey.

Found in humid tropical and subtropical forests in the western and northern Amazon Basin in South America, it occurs in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and the Guianas. Despite its scientific name, it is not found in Chile.

Photographer: Nathan Rupert

ECSST Favorite Quotes

“The world is not ready for some
people when they show up, but
that shouldn't stop anyone.”

Ashly Lorenzana

Endangered Cat Species Survival Trust (ECSST)

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Photo: The Asian Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii, syn. Pardofelis temminckii), also called the Asiatic Golden Cat and Temminck's Cat, is a medium-sized wild cat of Southeastern Asia.

Photographer: Katerina Mirus (Wild & Beauty Photography)

ECSST Favorite Quotes

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link of the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.

Winston S. Churchill

Endangered Cat Species Survival Trust (ECSST)

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Photo: The Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is a rare Tiger subspecies that inhabits the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is classified as Critically Endangered.

Photographer: David Whelan Photography

ECSST Favorite Quotes

I've never understood why people
consider youth a time of freedom and joy.
It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

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Photo: The Amur Leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is a Leopard subspecies native to the Primorye region of south eastern Russia and Jilin Province of northeast China, and is classified as Critically Endangered since 1996 by IUCN.

Photographer: Chris Godfrey Wildlife Photography

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We are all ordinary.
We are all boring.
We are all spectacular.
We are all shy.
We are all bold.
We are all heroes.
We are all helpless.
It just depends on the day.

Brad Meltzer

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Photo: The Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is a rare Tiger subspecies that inhabits the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is classified as Critically Endangered.

Photographer: David Whelan Photography

A black panther is the melanistic color variant of any big cat species. Black panthers in Asia and Africa are leopards (Panthera pardus), and those in the Americas are black jaguars (Panthera onca)..

In jaguars, the melanism allele is dominant. Consequently, black jaguars may produce either black or spotted cubs, but a pair of spotted jaguars can only produce spotted cubs. Individuals with two copies of the allele are darker (the black background colour is more dense) than ones with just one copy, whose background colour may appear to be dark charcoal rather than black.

The black jaguar was considered a separate species by indigenous peoples.

Image: Jaguar mom Rica, cuddling with cub

Photographer: Animal Highlights by Dagmar Göddemeier