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- Wild cats are endangered due to habitat degradation and loss, poaching, human-wildlife conflict, pollution, and climate change1. There is growing human activity and too much human activity which invariably leads to loss of wild cat habitat, loss of wild cat prey, poaching of the wild cats for their body parts, legal killing of wild cats for their body parts, poisoning of the large wild cats because they prey on livestock because the cat’s territory has been encroached upon by farmers (retaliatory killings) and sport hunting2. Breeding with domestic cats is also a threat to wildcats, which erodes the separate genetic identity of wildcats, mixing their gene pool with that of domestic cats3. Wild cats around the world face a long list of challenges as their habitat is degraded, their food supply diminished, and the cats are hunted for their body parts and meat4.
Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.These species, many of them habitat specialists with narrow ecological niches, face a wide array of threats including habitat degradation and loss, poaching, human-wildlife conflict, and increasingly, pollution and climate change.news.mongabay.com/2022/02/the-small-cats-nobo…The answer to the question will be generalised and it will be very brief because in respect of all wild cat species the answer is the same: there is growing human activity and there is too much human activity which invariably leads to loss of wild cat habitat, loss of wild cat prey, poaching of the wild cats for their body parts, legal killing of wild cats for their body parts, poisoning of the large wild cats because they prey...
pictures-of-cats.org/why-are-wild-cats-endangered.…The threat to wildcats comes from breeding with domestic cats, which erodes the separate genetic identity of wildcats, mixing their gene pool with that of domestic cats.ptes.org/get-informed/facts-figures/wildcat/Wild cats around the world face a long list of challenges as their habitat is degraded, their food supply diminished, and the cats are hunted for their body parts and meat.news.mongabay.com/2017/09/the-worlds-5-most-e… - People also ask
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