This Spotless Cheetah was photographed in 2012 and, according to experts, the last one like it was documented in 1921. The images were taken by wildlife photographer and artist Guy Combes at the
Athi Kapiti Conservancy in Kenya. Combes heard rumors of the cat and searched an area of 100,000 acres for days for a chance to photograph it. He managed to get within 50 meters of the animal and watched it for a while before a serval appeared and the cheetah took off after it. Wildlife experts believe that the genetic mutation that this cheetah had would help it thrive in the wild as other species may believe it to be a lion.
Cute mammals, protected from cats now. See photos.
A critically endangered mala or rufous hare wallaby in the feral predator-proof fenced area on Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary. Photograph: Wayne Lawler/Australian Wildlife Conservancy
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The world’s largest cat-proof fence has been completed in central Australia, creating a 94 square kilometre sanctuary for endangered marsupials.
The 44km fence – made of 85,000 pickets, 400km of wire and 130km of netting – surrounds the Newhaven wildlife sanctuary, a former cattle station that has been bought by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.
Endangered species such as the bilby, the burrowing bettong and the mala (also known as the rufous hare-wallaby) will have a chance to replenish their populations inside the massive sanctuary, safe from Australia’s feral cat epidemic.
Feral cats kill a million native birds every night across Australia and have caused the extinction of 20 native species since they were introduced by the first fleet.
Bilby
Burrowing bettong
And people still doubt that cats are problem animals somehow
Keep your cats inside. Stop adding to the problem.
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