Working to Give Wild Cats a Future.

The Cat Survival Trust was registered as a charity in 1976. Its original purpose was to promote the conservation of wild cats by breeding them in captivity and subsequently releasing them into suitable wild situations. Later it was realised that this was not the best way to go about conserving the animals; suitable wild habitat already had a population of cats and the habitat itself was disappearing with alarming rapidity. The Trust purchased a 10,000 acre reserve in north east Argentina which conserves the entire habitat where cats live. This is not only more cost-effective but involves the conservation of all the plants, animals and fungi that make up the ecosystem on which the cats depend. The Trust is now planning to purchase more natural habitat to create more protected areas. If our plans are successful, these new reserves will be located in seven different countries and will add substantially to the number of cat species protected on land bought by the Trust.

Conservation
Natural habitat acquisition