Panthera’s long term commitment to range-wide species conservation through measuring, mitigating, and monitoring critical threats to wild cats is a unique model of conservation. Critical threats require new thinking and new tools. Just as some of Panthera’s staff were the first to adapt the use of automated cameras to produce the first reliable population estimates of certain large cat species, we are now working on other innovative techniques to further our goals.

Panthera’s unique partnership with the American Museum of Natural History on sophisticated genetic fingerprinting tools provides technical assistance to students and scientists from other programs at the state of the art laboratory facilities and performs genetic analysis for conservation research projects free of charge. These genetic fingerprinting tools are the basis of a developing protocol for scat detection dogs to collect feces: a non invasive way to estimate wild cat populations. All methodology Panthera develops is provided for the entire cat conservation community’s benefit.

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