Almost Famous Animals

The Almost Famous Animals reporting project publicizes the plight of little known and threatened tropical, subtropical, and temperate zone animals, and serves to highlight the wildlife scientists working to protect them. The fight to save charismatic wildlife like tigers and pandas is relatively well known worldwide. But how about the battle to save the beleaguered Javan slow loris,  the endangered Asiatic golden cat, the little known Visayan deer, and the Hairy Babirusa? If these are animals you can’t picture, with names that send you running to Google or Wikipedia, you’re not alone. Ecosystems are complex and interdependent. No animal should be left out of the equation if we are to truly protect nature.

Small cat conservationists hail Uganda’s new Echuya Forest National Park

Asian golden cat range expands, but declines continue amid rising threats

IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning

NGOs launch novel community projects to conserve Mexico’s ocelots

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Tabby’s likely ancestor & Earth’s most widespread wildcat is an enigma

A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species

Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America

Mysterious, at risk, understudied flat-headed cat lacks conservation focus

Ridiculously rare photo catches Asian caracal swimming a river in India

Saving Asia’s fishing cat means protecting threatened wetland habitat

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

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