We are happy to announce that the
First International Small Wild Cat Conservation Summit

will be held from 11–14 September 2017 at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, United Kingdom

with support of

and in cooperation with

We look forward to the following

Presentations

• The future of small wild cat conservation – by Jim Sanderson, Small Cat Conservation Foundation
• The Aspinall Foundation and small wild cats: captive-breeding, habitat protection and conservation monitoring – by Tony King, The Aspinall Foundation
• 25 years of Black-footed Cat field research and conservation – by Alexander Sliwa, Black-footed Cat Working Group
• Sand Cat research and conservation in Morocco – by Grégory Breton, Panthera France
• Conservation status and ecology of Africa’s least known felid, the African Golden Cat – by Badru Mugerwa, Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation
• The Urban Caracal Project: examining the effects of human activities on Caracals in an isolated peninsula – by Laurel Serieys, Urban Caracal Project
• Iberian Lynx conservation: from critically endangered to endangered – by Miguel Simón and Luis Barrios, LIFE Lince Andalucía
• Conservation of the European Wildcat in Germany: success and lessons to learn – by Christine Thiel-Bender, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz
• Scottish Wildcat conservation: past, present, future – by David Barclay, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
• News about Pallas' Cat in Iran – by Niloufar Raeesi, Pallas' Cat Working Group
• Conservation of Pallas’ Cat in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal – by Ganga Ram Regmi, Pallas' Cat Working Group
• A tale of tails – an attempt to decipher small cat distributions by tail lengths – by Shomita Mukherjee, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History
• Conservation of Fishing Cat and Rusty-spotted Cat in northern Andhra Pradesh, India – by Murthy Kantimahanti, Fishing Cat Working Group
• Fishing Cat conservation in Sri Lanka – by Ashan Thudugala, Fishing Cat Working Group
• Conservation of Jungle Cat and Rusty-spotted Cat in Sri Lanka – by Anya Ratnayaka, Fishing Cat Working Group
• Small cats of the swamps – felids and peat-swamp forests – by Susan Cheyne, Borneo Nature Foundation
• Guigna and Andean Cat conservation in Chile – by Constanza Napolitano, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Chile and Alianza Gato Andino
• Pampas Cat ecology and conservation in Peru – by Álvaro García Olaechea, BioS Research Center of Biodiversity and Sustainability
• Project Wild Cats of Brazil: past and present contributions towards small wild cat conservation – by Tadeu Gomes de Oliveira, Projeto Gatos do Mato