How to support Wild Cats World projects and cats?

Become a Friend, (symbolic) Adoption parent or Volunteer. Donations from 100 – 300 a year will get a monthly up-date with inside information about all the projects, animals, births or sad goodbye’s…about the relocations and releases. Donations from 300 – onwards, will get a 2 weekly up-date, but also previews or instant up-dates about important info. You can donate to Wild Cats World in general, or to one specific species: African wildcats, Black-footed cats, Caracals, Cheetahs, Leopards and Servals. Your kind donations will support us to create bigger space for the cats that cannot be released and support our huge […]

Leopard Lady lives with wild cats by Hannah Stevens

For this conservationist, there is only one way to start her day – by hanging out with leopards. Babette De Jonge, 50, founded Wild Cats World in 2011 to help conserve endangered big cats, such as leopards and African wild cats. Based in Kirkwood, South Africa, the sanctuary is home to four leopards, and one cub, cheetahs, servals, caracals, African wildcats, Africa’s smallest cat – the black-footed cat and a group of 8 feral cats. By building up a mutual respect with the leopards – who were rescued from exploitation – Babette has been able to work hands on with […]

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Leopard family at play

Wild Cats World Leopard Conservation Project; so far…..

A life dedicated to leopards – being tolerated close to them in every stage of their life. Babette de Jonge (Founder/CEO Wild Cats World/Wild Cats Magazine) keeps on investing in what’s best for them, backed up by her life partner and 2 great caretakers, taking care of the wild cats in S.A. when Babette (and partner) cannot be present. Focus is now mainly on the African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) since phase I started of a release program, for youngsters Olive, Solo, Beau & Bahati. Babette has an unbreakable bond with the leopards, started from the rescue of 4 adult […]

ULTIMATE LOVE & CARE? ULTIMATE TRANSPARENCY? ULTIMATE ETHICAL?

We can say fully YES to this. Just for the many people who contact us regularly, how they can start a facility, how they can keep big or wild cats, if we want to sponsor meat for their cats? Just for the ones, who will always be there, having a say…..here’s something to realize, and yes please do compare with all other “ethical” projects. And please think twice before starting with a facility, or with big/wild cats, as honestly after reading this? Do you love the cats as much as we do? Willing to sacrifice everything? With our relatively small […]

TO TRULY LOVE IS BEING ABLE LETTING THEM GO….WILD

Here’s the first pictures of the amazing leopards Olive, Beau, Bahati and Solo in their new huge camp, Phase I of their re-wilding programme, though the people involved instantly saw the wild already is truly in them. The four young leopards were born in our facility, with the sole purpose of being released, and it is only because of Eastern Cape Officials not granting permits to the Private Game Reserves to release (our) leopards, uncastrated that is, this process did take longer than expected. A few “sanctuaries” were contacted but were as expected not interested in true leopard conservation or […]