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13 April 11
For a $5 donation you can upload your cat’s photo to the National Geographic website and support big cat conservation! Have you added your kitty yet?

For a $5 donation you can upload your cat’s photo to the National Geographic website and support big cat conservation!

Have you added your kitty yet?

Reblogged: thebigcatblog

22 March 11
National Geographic Big Cats Initiative grantee Anne Kent Taylor sent another report from the field in Kenya this weekend. She writes about how fencing livestock enclosures with wire barriers has deterred not only the big cats—lions and leopards—from raiding domestic animals, but have also been an effective defence against honey badgers, which Taylor had not realized were also regularly attacking livestock. Taylor has been using funding from the Big Cats Initiative to provide wire fencing to Kenya’s Maasai herders, on the basis that if wild animals can be kept away from cattle and goats the farmers will have less incentive to kill marauding lions and other predators. Her project has so far reported 100 percent success in keeping predators at bay. Now will it also prove effective in stopping humans killing predators? In a land where poaching of wild animals is rampant, that remains to be seen. Read Taylor’s report. Click here to find out more about the Big Cats Intiative. Photo by: sallylondon

National Geographic Big Cats Initiative grantee Anne Kent Taylor sent another report from the field in Kenya this weekend. She writes about how fencing livestock enclosures with wire barriers has deterred not only the big cats—lions and leopards—from raiding domestic animals, but have also been an effective defence against honey badgers, which Taylor had not realized were also regularly attacking livestock.

Taylor has been using funding from the Big Cats Initiative to provide wire fencing to Kenya’s Maasai herders, on the basis that if wild animals can be kept away from cattle and goats the farmers will have less incentive to kill marauding lions and other predators. Her project has so far reported 100 percent success in keeping predators at bay. Now will it also prove effective in stopping humans killing predators? In a land where poaching of wild animals is rampant, that remains to be seen.

Read Taylor’s report.

Click here to find out more about the Big Cats Intiative.

Photo by: sallylondon

11 March 11
National Geographic’s Little Kitties for Big Cats campaign is still a long way from their goal. Help them out, and spread the word! With a donation of $5 or more they’ll post your cat’s photo to show your support of big cat conservation. Click here to donate!

National Geographic’s Little Kitties for Big Cats campaign is still a long way from their goal. Help them out, and spread the word!

With a donation of $5 or more they’ll post your cat’s photo to show your support of big cat conservation. Click here to donate!

15 February 11
The Last Lions is an exciting new film from National Geographic Entertainment, opening in theaters February 18. You have the opportunity to win a trip to the actual location where the film was made: beautiful Botswana! Enter The Last Lions Sweepstakes and you could be the lucky winner of an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime trip for two to experience the lush landscapes, abundant wildlife, and fascinating culture of Botswana, Africa. You will even get to visit the Okavango Delta (where The Last Lions was filmed) on a 12-day private safari! This incredible trip includes round-trip air to Botswana, travel within Africa, and all hotel accommodations. Click here to enter! (USA only) Photo by: Beverly Joubert

The Last Lions is an exciting new film from National Geographic Entertainment, opening in theaters February 18.

You have the opportunity to win a trip to the actual location where the film was made: beautiful Botswana!

Enter The Last Lions Sweepstakes and you could be the lucky winner of an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime trip for two to experience the lush landscapes, abundant wildlife, and fascinating culture of Botswana, Africa. You will even get to visit the Okavango Delta (where The Last Lions was filmed) on a 12-day private safari! This incredible trip includes round-trip air to Botswana, travel within Africa, and all hotel accommodations.

Click here to enter! (USA only)

Photo by: Beverly Joubert

14 February 11

Watch The Last Lions trailer - and make a difference for lions! For every trailer viewing on YouTube, National Geographic will contribute $.10* to lion and big cat conservation in Botswana. Watch as many times as you want, and share with your friends and family. Let’s get to 1 million views together!

*Contribution maximum is $100,000. For more information on National Geographic’s conservation efforts all over the globe, go to Cause an Uproar.

Posted: 7:19 PM
Click through to read an interview with Beverly and Dereck Joubert, makers of The Last Lions, where they discuss their new film, the crisis facing lions, and how everyone can help save Africa’s lions from extinction. Photo by: Beverly Joubert of Mau di Tau, star of the film, with her cubs. © National Geographic Entertainment.

Click through to read an interview with Beverly and Dereck Joubert, makers of The Last Lions, where they discuss their new film, the crisis facing lions, and how everyone can help save Africa’s lions from extinction.

Photo by: Beverly Joubert of Mau di Tau, star of the film, with her cubs. © National Geographic Entertainment.

Posted: 5:40 PM
Vote Lions for Best Kiss! Which animal pair deserves the award for Best Kiss? Vote for your favorite and we’ll announce the winner tomorrow. Photo by: Neal Lillis, Your Shot, via National Geographic

Vote Lions for Best Kiss!

Which animal pair deserves the award for Best Kiss? Vote for your favorite and we’ll announce the winner tomorrow.

Photo by: Neal Lillis, Your Shot, via National Geographic

6 February 11
For a donation of $5 or more, National Geographic will post your cat’s photo to show your support of big cat conservation! Click for more!

For a donation of $5 or more, National Geographic will post your cat’s photo to show your support of big cat conservation! Click for more!

3 February 11
Support big cats with your little cat! Upload their photo to the National Geographic website for a $5 donation to their big cat conservation programs.

Support big cats with your little cat! Upload their photo to the National Geographic website for a $5 donation to their big cat conservation programs.

2 February 11

Fifty years ago there were close to half-a-million lions in Africa. Today there are around 20,000. To make matters worse, lions, unlike elephants, which are far more numerous, have virtually no protection under government mandate or through international accords.

This is the jumping-off point for a disturbing, well-researched and beautifully made cri de coeur from husband and wife team Dereck and Beverly Joubert, award-winning filmmakers from Botswana who have been Explorers-in-Residence at National Geographic for more than four years.

Pointing to poaching as a primary threat while noting the lion’s pride of place on the list for eco-tourists-an industry that brings in 200 billion dollars per year worldwide-the Jouberts build a solid case for both the moral duty we have to protect lions (as well as other threatened “big cats,” tigers among them) and the economic sense such protection would make.

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh