🩷😻❤️LOVE❤️😻🩷 cats but don't know how to help #communitycats #feralcats #straycats you see living outside? Heartbroken 💔 over kittens born outdoors in your neighborhood? Learn now YOU can make a difference at our free "Community Cats 101" 🤓✏️📚💻🐈 overview webinar, an insider's tour of the world of Trap-Neuter-Return #TNR and community cats, coming up on Wednesday, February 19! Register: https://bit.ly/BFCICCR or link in bio #bideawee #nycfci #tnvr #kittenseason #catstodon #catsofmastodon
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Community Cats 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Do you want to help stray and feral cats in your community but don't know where to begin? This webinar will give you an insider's tour of the world of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and community cats, discussing common questions like: • Why are there so many cats living outside? • What do I do if I find kittens? • What do I do if I find a sick or injured community cat? • What does a TNR project look like? • What is colony care? • How can I become part of the TNR/rescue community? Can't attend live? No problem! Everyone who registers will receive links to the webinar recording and handout the next day.

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It's #WinterShelterWednesday! Providing warm, dry shelters is just one of many ways you can help #communitycats #feralcats #straycats you see living outdoors. Learn about this and lots more at our FREE "Community Cats 101" webinar on 2/19 at 5:00 ET! Register: https://bit.ly/BFCICCR or link in bio #bideawee #nycfci #tnr #tnvr #kittenseason #catstodon #catsofmastodon
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Community Cats 101. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Do you want to help stray and feral cats in your community but don't know where to begin? This webinar will give you an insider's tour of the world of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and community cats, discussing common questions like: • Why are there so many cats living outside? • What do I do if I find kittens? • What do I do if I find a sick or injured community cat? • What does a TNR project look like? • What is colony care? • How can I become part of the TNR/rescue community? Can't attend live? No problem! Everyone who registers will receive links to the webinar recording and handout the next day.

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While feral domesticated cats are a big problem in a lot of places (including NYC) and need vigorous #TNVR / #TNR or relocation, #WildFelines need to be protected!

In #Brazil, #conservationists try to save one of the world’s most #endangered #cats

by Sarah Brown on 13 June 2024

via @mongabay

"- #Muñoa’s #Pampas cat, a small wild feline, is endemic to the Pampas grasslands that sprawl over southern Brazil, #Uruguay and northeastern #Argentina.

"- With fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild, experts call Muñoa’s pampas cat one of the most endangered felines in the world and warn it go extinct within 10 years as its natural habitat is cleared for #cropland.

- #Conservation plans to save the species include switching from #monocultures to extensive ranching that preserves the natural #grasslands, creating a #captivebreeding program, and developing a trinational conservation agreement.

"- Recent #floods in the Brazilian state of #RioGrandeDoSul, where many Muñoa’s Pampas cat sightings have been recorded, have currently halted all local #conservation efforts, putting the future of this feline at risk."

Read more:
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/in-brazil-conservationists-try-to-save-one-of-the-worlds-most-endangered-cats/

#EndangeredSpecies #SouthAmerica #ConservationEfforts #Biodiversity

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

The Pampas grasslands, spanning southern Brazil, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina, are home to a wildcat so rare that researchers consider it the most endangered of its kind in the Americas, and possibly the world. Most sightings of this domestic cat-sized feline come from camera-trap images that have documented its distinctive fawn-colored coat, fluffy fur and […]

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