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Panthera’s work protects wild cats and their habitats around the globe while building tolerance and fostering coexistence between cats and the people who live alongside them. Thanks to our supporters, Panthera and our partners have measurably stopped or reversed cat decline in key landscapes around the globe. Read on to learn about some of our groundbreaking accomplishments!
Operating across ten sites in five countries, this program impacts over 300 tigers—approximately 8% of the global wild tiger population—helping stabilize or increase populations in key areas.
Spanning 18 countries, this initiative connects jaguar habitats from northern Mexico to northern Argentina, ensuring these magnificent cats remain genetically diverse and free to roam.
We completed our three-year range-wide analyses alongside 224 collaborators to map puma distributions and the connectivity among puma populations across North and South America. This will inform where we work in the future and will be used to assess the success of future interventions. Through this project, we collectively built a coalition of more than 200 people who work on puma conservation across the region.
After half a century of poaching, leopard populations have begun rebounding in parts of Africa’s third largest national park, Kafue National Park, after four years of counter-poaching operations using advanced technologies, led by Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW). Life may be looking up for lions as well, with lion population density either remaining stable or increasing in two areas surveyed within the Park.
Since launching in 2022, our CWC Program has conducted 60 training events across Asia, Africa, and the Americas to combat illegal wildlife trade.
Over 26 million images from motion-activated cameras have been processed since 2012. These imagers come from 466 data set in 25 countries. From this collection, we have over 470 different species and over 5,000 different individually identified cats (i.e., leopards, jaguars, tigers, ocelots and more).
This cutting-edge tool has been implemented in numerous protected areas, leading to more effective patrols and significant reductions in poaching incidents.
Since 2009, we’ve educated over 1,300 children and youth about the importance of wild cats and conservation, fostering the next generation of conservationists.
Since Panthera’s founding in 2006, we’ve worked alongside more than 30 communities worldwide to protect biodiversity and landscapes critical to wild cats. Indigenous and local communities — stewards of nearly 40% of the world’s intact landscapes and 80% of global biodiversity — are strategic conservation partners and are essential to the long-term future of threatened and endangered wild cats.
Panthera’s groundbreaking studies on wild cat genetics, behavior, and ecology have shaped international conservation strategies and action plans, guiding efforts to protect these species worldwide.
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