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Big Cat Week 2012 Starts Sunday!

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From Cougars, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, and snow leopards and more, it’s a great time to learn more about these amazing cats! But experts can’t protect them without knowing more about them. Nat Geo Wild presents the third annual Big Cat Week starting Sunday, Dec 9th.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. It is protected and held in trust for society by governments or appropriate intergovernmental conventions (i.e.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. For the same reason that other invasive do better than the natives, feral Cats outhunt native predators, and native prey are not as protected against them. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? That was one of his cats. Photo Credit: Martin_Heigan via Compfight cc.